pend

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A judge temporarily blocked some elements of his schools legislation while cases pend.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

Richard Mortimer's excitement was dampened by professional botanists, pend ing further inquiry.

From Time Magazine Archive

She met him on the stair as if by accident, pretending to be going down to her cellar in the pend.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

Pend, pend, v.i. to hang, as in a balance, to impend.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

In candent ire the solar splendour flames; The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames; His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes, And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn