pensile

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They construct pensile nests composed of interlaced grass and other similar materials.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W by Project Gutenberg

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 "pensile Lilac" has been sung by many poets; but the spirit of the flower has been best portrayed in verse by Elizabeth Akers.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

The dainty pensile nests which become visible when the leaves fall in the autumn are swung by four species of vireos, the white-eyed, red-eyed, warbling, and yellow-throated.

From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by Beebe, William

They are compact and rather deep, half pensile, that is to say, partly slung between the branches of the fork to which they are attached by bands of vegetable fibres.

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