"Uvula" is a word in ENGLISH
The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior
border of the soft palate.
Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in 1935; but if they do, they must not be querulously indignant because the King's Jubilee is not mentioned, or because I have arranged the weather and the moon's changes to suit my own fancy. For, however realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offence in the world.
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Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.
Read the complete definitionThe peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting …
Read the complete definitionA spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent …
Read the complete definitionAny small pendent ornament.
Read the complete definitionA well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy …
Read the complete definitionSuspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
Read the complete definitionA pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves …
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Read the complete definitionFringed with long, pendent hair.
Read the complete definitionA kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.
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Read the complete definitionHaving large, pendent ears.
Read the complete definitionA pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, …
Read the complete definitionLat Pending the suit Fleta, lib. 2, c. 54, { 23
Read the complete definitionTo hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
Read the complete definitionThe quality or state of being pendent or suspended.
Read the complete definitionSuspense; the state of being pendent or undecided; the state of an action, etc., after it hns been begun, and …
Read the complete definitionSupported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging; as, a pendent leaf.
Read the complete definitionJutting over; projecting; overhanging.
Read the complete definitionLat. Pending the suit; during the actual progress of a suit; during litigation
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