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sending |
2 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sending n : causing something to go "the cost of sending their children to college"
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