6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wend \Wend\, v. 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 v["a]nda, 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. --Shak.
2. To turn round. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wend \Wend\, obs.
p. p. of {Wene}. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wend \Wend\, v. t.
To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend
one's way Also used reflexively. ``Great voyages to wend.''
--Surrey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wend \Wend\, n. (O. Eng. Law)
A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit. [Obs.]
--Burrill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wends \Wends\, n. pl.; sing. {Wend}. (Ethnol.)
A Slavic tribe which once occupied the northern and eastern
parts of Germany, of which a small remnant exists.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wend
v : direct one's course or way
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