pensile

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Four or five weeping-willows, their stems leaning towards the grave, hang their pensile branches over it.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 by Various

The lambkin crops its crimson gem, The wild-bee murmurs on its breast, The blue-fly bends its pensile stem, Light o'er the sky-lark's nest.

From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by Richardson, David Lester

The oriole uses them the most successfully, often attaching her pensile nest to the branch by their aid.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John

These are in great part perpendicular, and are overclambered with airy stairways climbing to pensile arbors.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

I saw myself the inheritor of Trewlove's cast-off personality, his inelegancies of movement, his religious opinions, his bagginess at the knees, his mournful, pensile whiskers— This would never do!

From Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir