prae-pendĕo, ēre, v. n., to hang before, to hang down in front (class.): ubi tegumenta praependere possent ad defendendos ictus, Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 3: storias circum turrim praependentes, id. ib. 2, 9, 5: praependent demissae in pocula sertae, Prop. 2, 33 (3, 31), 37: barba, Mart. 9, 48, 4: ancones, Vitr. 4, 6: lacinia praependens impedit, App. Mag. p. 286, 21.