PENDANT

(Lat. pen do, / hang.) In Gothic Archl tecture, an ornamented polygonal piece of stone or timber hanging down from the vault or roof of a building. Of stone pendants some exquisite examples may be seen in Henry VII.'s Chapel at Westminster. In ancient writers tho springers of arches, which rest on shafts or corbels, are called pendants. Pendants of a Skip, are those streamers or long colours which are split or divided into two parts ending in points, and hang at the mast-head or at the yard arm ends. Pe'ndant. In Painting, , a picture or print which, from uniformity of size and subject, seems to hang up as a companion to another. The term may also be applied to ba i rilievi of similar sizes. Pendant is also the general term for all kinds of ornaments worn in the ears by both sexes in savage, and by females, chiefly, in civilized countries; usually termed car rings, which see. [s. 925]