pensile

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Be careful to distinguish between pencil, an instrument for writing, and pensile, meaning hanging down.

From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous

Like the others, it builds a long pensile nest of similar material and suspended from the extremities of limbs near the ground The five to seven eggs are pure white.

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)

Hail, pensile gem, that thus can softly gild The starry coronal of quiet eve!

From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul

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

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