Associations to the word «Pend»

Wiktionary

PEND, verb. (obsolete) To hang down. [15th-19th c.]
PEND, verb. (obsolete) (Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault. [15th-18th c.]
PEND, verb. To hang; to depend.
PEND, noun. (Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard. [from 15th c.]
PEND, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To pen; to confine.
PEND, verb. (transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something). [from 20th c.]
PEND, noun. (India) oil cake

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King