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Webster 1913 Edition
Send
Send
,Verb.
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[GREEK]
, Icel. sinni
a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt
a way, journey, OIr. s[GREEK]t
. Cf. Sense
.] 1.
To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go;
as, to
. send
a messengerI 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 messageHe . . .
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 like4.
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.
Send
,Verb.
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 mastsTotten.
To send for
, to request or require by message to come or be brought.
Send
,Noun.
(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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Send
SEND
,Verb.
T.
1. In a general sense, to throw, cast or thrust; to impel or drive by force to a distance, either with the hand or with an instrument or by other means. We send a ball with the hand or with a bat; a bow sends an arrow; a cannon sends a shot; a trumpet sends the voice much farther than the unassisted organs of speech.
2. To cause to be conveyed or transmitted; as, to send letters or dispatches from one country to another.
3. To cause to go or pass from place to place; as, to send a messenger from London to Madrid.
4. To commission, autorize or direct to go and act.
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. Jer. 23.
5. To cause to come or fall; to bestow.
He sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Matt. 5.
6. To cause to come or fall; to inflict.
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation and rebuke. Duet. 28.
7. To propagate; to diffuse.
Cherubic songs by night from neighb'ring hills
Aerial music send. Milton.