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A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [Obs.] The stomach's pension, and the time's expense. Sylvester.

Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. Donne.

One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Milton. Old pensioners . . . of Chelsea Hospital. Macaulay.

The act of appending. [Obs.]

To grant an outpension to.

Careful consideration; pondering. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. Your full consent Gave wings to my propension. Shak.

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

Suspension; temporary suppression. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.

To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge. Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes. Shak.

tedness; as, he recited the story with great animation. Suspended animation, temporary suspension of the vital functions, as in persons nearly drowned.

Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.

indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.

Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance. Bifilar micrometer (often called a bifilar), an instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; -- more commonly called a filar…

One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

e built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway engineering. -- Suspension bridge. See under Suspension. -- Trestle bridge, a bridge formed of a series of short, simple girders resting on trestles. -- Tubular bridge, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or rectangular tube, with cellular wall…

in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).

ire, usually covered with some protecting, or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.