Send , n. (Naut.)
The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [Written also scend.]
W. C. Russell. "The send of the
sea". Longfellow.
Send (?), v. i. 1. To
dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away
my head?
2 Kings
vi. 32. 2. (Naut.) To pitch; as,
the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. Totten.
To send for, to request or require by message to come or be
brought.
Send (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sent (&?;); p. pr. & vb.
n. Sending.]
[AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G. senden, OHG.
senten, Icel. senda, Sw. sända, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. sī&?;, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W.
hynt a way, journey, OIr. s&?;t. Cf. Sense.]
1. To cause
to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to
go; as, to
send a messenger.
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
Jer. xxiii. 21.
I proceeded forth
and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
John viii. 42. Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires.
Swift. 2. To give motion to; to
cause to be
borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback.
Esther viii. 10.
O send out thy light
an thy truth; let them lead me.
Ps. xliii. 3.
3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to
send a ball, an arrow, or the
like.
4. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed
by a dependent proposition. "God
send him well!" Shak.
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
Deut. xxviii. 20.
And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matt. v. 45.
God send
your mission may bring back peace.
Sir W. Scott.
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