pensile

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The nest was pensile, like that of the Baltimore Oriole.

From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897 by Various

Tickell describes the nest as pensile but quite open, being a hemisphere with one side prolonged, by which it is suspended from a twig.

From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian

They build pensile nests of strips of bark and fibres, swung from the forks of branches.

From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert)

The books are ranged all round the room on open shelves, with a communication to those of the upper row by a pensile gallery that surrounds the whole periphery.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

The crested waters sleep; White stars their emerald twilight keep Above the tryst of pensile glories That kiss to purple-and-gold the deep.

From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)