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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1613
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Suspending, ppl. adj. [e.m.E. suspending (ministers) (1656); Suspend v.] That hang, or are suspended, from a support. —1613 Scots in Poland 69.
16 pairs of suspending eye-glasses
