dangling

dangling
    n 1: the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so
         it moves freely); "there was a small ceremony for the
         hanging of the portrait" [syn: {suspension}, {dangling},
         {hanging}]
    

Dangle \Dan"gle\ (d[a^][ng]"g'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dangled};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Dangling}.] [Akin to Dan. dangle, dial. Sw.
   dangla, Dan. dingle, Sw. dingla, Icel. dingla; perh. from E.
   ding.]
   To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
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         He'd rather on a gibbet dangle
         Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.  --Hudibras.
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         From her lifted hand
         Dangled a length of ribbon.              --Tennyson.
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   {To dangle about} or {To dangle after}, to hang upon
      importunately; to court the favor of; to beset.
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            The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle
            after them,
            are well inclined to pull down the present
            establishment.                        --Swift.
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49 Moby Thesaurus words for "dangling":
      bagging, baggy, careening, cascading, danglement, dependence,
      dependency, dependent, depending, drooping, easy, falling,
      falling loosely, flapping, flowing, hanging, hung, lax, loose,
      lurching, pendency, pendent, pending, pendulant, pendular,
      penduline, pendulosity, pendulous, pendulousness, pensile,
      pensileness, pensility, pitching, reeling, relaxed, rickety,
      rocking, rolling, shaky, slack, sloppy, streaming, suspended,
      suspense, suspension, swaying, swinging, tossing, weeping