pendant

The cylindrical stem on a watchcase to which the guard-ring is attached.

A corollary.

Hanging: same as pendent (which is now the usual spelling).

A loose hanging part; something attached to and hanging loosely from an object of which it is an ornamental or useful part, as a bead, ball, knob, or ring of any material, hanging from a necklace, ear-ring, lamp, the edge of a garment, or a locket hanging from a brooch, or the like. See cut under badge.

Specifically— An ear-ring.

A name given to that part of the knightly belt of the fourteenth century which was allowed to hang after passing through the buckle and sometimes through an additional loop: it ended with the chape, which acted as a weight to keep it hanging perpendicularly.

The part of a watch by which It is suspended, consisting generally of a guard-ring and a pusher-pin.

An apparatus hanging from a roof or ceiling for giving light, generally branched and ornamented; a chandelier or gaselier.

In architecture, a hanging ornament used in the vaults and in timber roofs of late and debased medieval architecture, and also in some Oriental architecture.

A pendulum.