To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner;
to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
1. To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope. 2. To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court. You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object ...
