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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Send \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 s["a]nda, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS s[=i]?, 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Send \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Send \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: send v 1: cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation" [syn: {direct}] 2: to cause or order to be taken directed, or transmitted to another place: "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept." [syn: {send out}] 3: cause to be directed or transmitted to another place "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written" [syn: {mail}, {post}] 4: transport commercially [syn: {transport}, {ship}] 5: assign to a station [syn: {station}, {post}, {base}, {place}] 6: transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia" [syn: {get off}, {send off}] 7: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" [syn: {commit}, {institutionalize}, {charge}] 8: broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: {air}, {broadcast}, {beam}, {transmit}]
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