Wend
[wend] or [wɛnd]
Definition
(verb.) direct one's course or way; 'wend your way through the crowds'.
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Definition
(-) p. p. of Wene.
(v. i.) To go; to pass; to betake one's self.
(v. i.) To turn round.
(v. t.) To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.
(n.) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
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Definition
n. the name given by the Germans to a branch of the Slavs which as early as the 6th century occupied the north and east of Germany from the Elbe along the coast of the Baltic to the Vistula and as far south as Bohemia: one of the Slavic population of Lusatia who still speak the Wendish tongue.—adjs. Wen′dic Wen′dish.
v.i. to go: to wind or turn.
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Examples
- And thou, Waldemar, wilt thou take lance and shield, and lay down thy policies, and wend along with me, and share the fate which God sends us? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But, the fierce figures were steadily wending East, West, North, and South, be that as it would; and whosoever hung, fire burned. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A melancholy procession was wending its way by the light of the lantern from the hut towards Blooms-End. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We entered the wood, and wended homeward. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- One large division of Germans, instead of going to the Holy Land, attacked and subjugated the still pagan Wends east of the Elbe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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