[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That suspends, in various senses.
1. In non-physical sense: see SUSPEND v. 1, 2.
1656. G. Collier, Answ. 15 Quest., Ded. A 2. Mr. Fisher … hath sent abroad … bitter insinuations against suspending ministers (as he calls them).
1689. Tutchin, Heroick Poem, 8. No Poetry must pass, but serv’d the Cause, Or some Suspending Ballad of the Laws.
1824. L. Murray, Engl. Gram., IV. i. § 4 (ed. 5), I. 366. It is a general rule, that the suspending pause should be used when the sense is incomplete.
1862. Ld. Brougham, Brit. Const., xvi. 247. James … assumed the full dispensing and suspending powers.
1910. Edin. Rev., Jan., 132. In spite of the Lords’ claim to act as a revising and suspending chamber.
2. In physical sense (see SUSPEND v. 8), usually applied to the support by which something is suspended (8 c).
1613. in A. F. Steuart, Scots in Poland (S.H.S.), 69. 16 pairs of suspending eye-glasses.
1796. Monthly Mag., II. 883. The patentee … proposes to attach the bridge to these [two parallel elliptic] curves, by means of wrought iron suspending bars.
1797. J. Curr, Coal Viewer, 22. The suspending lug of the corf.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., ii. (1842), 51. When the substance is small, the balance delicate, and the suspending line thick.
1846. Owen, in Rep. Brit. Assoc., I. 205. The large suspending mastoid to which Muller gives the name of ‘temporale.’
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2462/1. Suspending-clutch, a grapple to be fixed to a beam in a barn or warehouse, for the purpose of suspending hoisting tackle.
