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Webster 1913 Edition

Wend

Wend

(wĕnd)
,
obs.
p.
p.
of
Wene
.
Chaucer.

Wend

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Wended
,
Obs
.
Went
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Wending
.]
[AS.
wendan
to turn, to go, caus. of
windan
to wind; akin to OS.
wendian
, OFries.
wenda
, D.
wenden
to turn, G.
wenden
, Icel.
venda
, Sw.
vända
, Dan.
vende
, Goth.
wandjan
. See
Wind
to turn, and cf.
Went
.]
1.
To go; to pass; to betake one’s self.
“To Canterbury they wend.”
Chaucer.
To Athens shall the lovers
wend
.
Shakespeare
2.
To turn round.
[Obs.]
Sir W. Raleigh.

Wend

,
Verb.
T.
To direct; to betake; – used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.
“Great voyages to wend.”
Surrey.

Wend

,
Noun.
(O. Eng. Law)
A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
[Obs.]
Burrill.

Webster 1828 Edition

Wend

WEND

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To go; to pass to or from. [Obsolete, except in poetry; but its preterit, went, is in common use.]
2.
To turn round. [Wend and wind are from the same root.]

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