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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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