- The quality or state of being pendent or suspended. - The quality or state of being undecided, or in
continuance; suspense; as, the pendency of a suit.
- Form of capital punishment - Slack - of Hang - Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. - Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. - Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging
post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges. - The act of suspending anything; the state of being
suspended.
- Adjournment - Brief deferment - Deferment - Postponement of doubtful-sounding retirement pay - Postponement of hanging - System of supporting springs - The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended;
pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
- To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of
electrical currents. - To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of
electricity. - To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as
from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to
a factitious animation or activity. - To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron.
- A feeling of anxious uncertainty about what is to happen - Anticipation - Anxiety at what sounds like suspicious British money - Apprehension - Expectancy - Limbo - On tenterhooks, in ...