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pendicle Chiefly Sc.|ˈpɛndɪk(ə)l|
Also 6 -ikle, -ikill, -ekle, -ecule.
[f. L. type *pendicul-um, f. pendēre to hang + -culum, suffix forming names of instruments, also often diminutive. Cf. L. pendicul-us (in med.L. pendiclum) a cord or rope to hang with.]
1. A hanging ornament, a pendant. Now rare.
1488Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 85 Item, a ruf and pendiclis of the same. 1560in Registr. Cart. Ecclesie S. Egidii (Bann. Cl.) p. xlvii, Sanct Gelis coitt, and the litill pendekle of reid veluett that hang at his feit. 1641R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1775) I. 251 All casts him out of their thoughts, as a pendicle at the Lieutenant's ear. 1878H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. 59 The natives dress their hair in long ringlets,..adorned with pendicles of copper.
2. Something dependent on or pertaining to something else, as a subordinate part or adjunct; an appurtenance, appendage, dependency.
1533Bellenden Livy i. ii. (S.T.S.) 16 Fra þe begynnyng of lavyne to þe begynnyng of Alba þe colony and pendikillis þareof war xxx ȝeris. 1577–95Descr. Isles Scotl. in Skene Celtic Scotl. III. App. 428 The remanent..Iles were reknit but as pertinents and pendicles of the said four Iles. 1609Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 448 The keiping of the saidis signettis shall be..a particular pendicle of the said office of secretarie. 1792Statist. Acc. Scot. III. 330 The Parsonage of Stobo..having four churches belonging to it, which were called the Pendicles of Stobo. 1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. 107 A pendicle of Silverado mine.
b. spec. A small piece of ground, a cottage, etc. forming a dependent part of an estate; in later use esp. such a part separately sublet.
1546Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 43 The said castell,..parkis, medowis, pairtis and pendeculis thairof and thair pertinentis. a1649in Drumm. of Hawth.'s Wks. (1711) 157 That none of them trouble or molest Mr. William Drummond of Hawthornden his said lands, with houses, biggings, yards, parts, pendicles, and pertinents thereof. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 129 These feudal vassals let smaller lots..to the husbandmen; and these again sub-let pendicles to the great body of the labouring people. 1814Scott Wav. xlii. 1881in Edin. Rev. July 279 To roll into one conveniently-sized farm, several of the small, often scattered, parts, pendicles, and pertinents. |