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
Every year of his life has he seen the beautiful Hang-Bird weave his pensile habitation upon the long and flexible branches of the Elm, secure from the reach of every living creature.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
They are celebrated for their fine purse-shaped pensile nests.
From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Alfred Russel Wallace
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 Alice Morse Earle
He analyzes a pensile nest which he found in the woods—doubtless one of the vireo's—and fills ten pages with a minute description of the different materials which it contained.
From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs
