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. sända, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. sī&unr_;, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. s&unr_;t. Cf. Sense. ] 1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. Jer. xxiii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. John viii. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]

Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback. Esther viii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me. Ps. xliii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke. Deut. xxviii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Matt. v. 45. [ 1913 Webster ]

God send your mission may bring back peace. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand. [ 1913 Webster ]

See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? 2 Kings vi. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cendal (cf. Pr. & Sp. cendal, It. zendale), LL. cendallum, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a fine Indian cloth. ] A light thin stuff of silk. [ Written also cendal, and sendal. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver? Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sends. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]