Category:Wend

Wend, obs.

Defn: p. p. of wene. Chaucer.

Wend Wend, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wended, obs. Went; p. pr. & vb. n. Wending.] Etym: [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. vända, 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.

Wend Wend, v. t.

Defn: to direct; to betake;- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's Way. Also used reflexively. "great voyages to wend." Surrey.

Wend Wend, n. (o. Eng. Law)

Defn: a large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit. [obs.] Burrill.