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English Dictionary: wend	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for wend
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wend v direct one's course or way; "wend your way through the crowds"
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[84]nda, Dan. vende, Goth. wandjan. See {Wind} to turn, and cf. {Went}.] 1. To go; to pass; to betake one's self. [bd]To Canterbury they wend.[b8] --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\, n. (O. Eng. Law) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit. [Obs.] --Burrill.
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. [bd]Great voyages to wend.[b8] --Surrey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wend \Wend\, obs. p. p. of {Wene}. --Chaucer.
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.