pend

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  1. To pen; confine; hamper; restrain. Hidden or pended within the limits and precincts of Grece. Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 244. That straitness ne'er was meant to pend or press, But sure and upright make thy Passage. J. Beaumont, Psyche, i. 73.
  2. A pen; an inclosure. It shewed and represented to the eye muche what the facion or likenesse of a caige for byrdes, or of a pende wherein to kepe other beastes. Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 135. (Davies.)
  3. To hang, as in a balance; await settlement; impend. See pending. Great social questions now pend as to how we shall direct the overflowing charitable instincts of society so as really to help the needy and not pamper the lazy. S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 119.

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  • He said all he could do was to "pend" the charge for 65 days, and that in the meantime I would have to call this other company to dispute the charge, since they were a "third party biller". —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • Since each embedded PNG image within a MNG conforms to the PNG chunck specifications, I found that all I needed to do was pre-pend the PNG data extracted from the MNG with the PNG file signature to obtain a PNG formatted data stream. —  The Code Project Latest Articles
  • Applications that are both NAP & Credit approved get forwarded to the File Build department. if File build finds a discrepancy, they will re-pend the application File is sent to QA for verification. if complete, QA will and forward it to ACT. check the "QA Complete" box in the merchant system which will create si / Deployment tickets. if incomplete, QA will re-pend and forward to ACT for resolution. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • (While this would also be a pain, there are many phones that can pre-pend all calls with a certain dial out and a pause that would make this work with just a couple extra seconds of time.) —  GigaOM
  • A person is repulsive when he has qualities which tend to drive others back or away pend, pens# = hang 1. ap pend, to 2. append age_, that which 3. de pend, from 4. depend ent_, one who 5. depend ence_, state or quality of 6. in dependence, not 7. independ_ent_, one who 8. im pend, over 9. pend ant_, that which 10. pendulum 11. per pendicular, through 12. sus pend, under 13. suspend ers_, that which 14. suspens ion_, state of 1. —  Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois
 

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  1. An extended form of pen, apparently due to confusion with pind, pound.
  2. See pend, v., and pen.
  3. from Latin pendere, hang; in English use first in present participle (preposition) pending: see pending.
  4. Perhaps a dial. variant and use of pind, variant of pound, n.
 

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