pendant

Noun

pendant (plural pendants)

1. A supporting post attached to the main rafter.
2. A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck.
3. The dangling part of an earring.
4. A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant.
5. (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.
   • One vase is the pendant to the other vase.
6. (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
7. A lamp hanging from the roof.
8. An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
9. A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.
10. (obsolete) An appendix or addition, as to a book.
    • Many […] have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology
11. (in plural, obsolete) Testicles.
12. (obsolete) A pendulum.
    • a pendant being brought up to any height by the force of a former motion downwards1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of...