verb

• (obsolete) To hang down; to cause something to hang down
• (obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault.
• (obsolete) To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
  "pending upon certain powerful motives"

noun

• (Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.

verb

• (obsolete, transitive) To pen; to confine.
  "soche frowarde creatures as many women are, ought rather to be pended vp in a cage of iron"

verb

• (transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
  "The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis."