Pendule - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pendulePendulously
In a pendulous manner...
Pendulousness
The quality or state of being pendulous the state of hanging loosely pendulosity...
Bloodhound
A breed of large and powerful dogs with long smooth and pendulous ears and remarkable for acuteness of smell It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter and for tracking criminals Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff...
Cernuous
Inclining or nodding downward pendulous drooping said of a bud flower fruit or the capsule of a moss...
Dewlap
The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox which laps or licks the dew in grazing...
Flews
The pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs especially prominent in hounds called also chaps See Illust of Bloodhound...
Grass tree
An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoeliga having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous grasslike leaves from the center of which arises a long stem bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat tail These plants are often called ldquoblackboysrdquo from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire They yield two kinds of fragrant resin called Botany bay gum and Gum Acaroides...
kowhai
A shrub or small tree Sophora tetraptera of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden yellow flowers it yields a hard strong wood...
Lichen
One of a class of cellular flowerless plants technically called Lichenes having no distinction of leaf and stem usually of scaly expanded frond like forms but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched They derive their nourishment from the air and generate by means of spores The species are very widely distributed and form irregular spots or patches usually of a greenish or yellowish color upon rocks trees and various bodies to which they adhere with great tenacity They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss...
otterhound
A small hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat bred in England for hunting otters Called also otter dog...
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