Send, 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.
Send (?), v. i. 1.
To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do
an errand.
See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to
take away my head?
2 Kings vi. 32.
2. (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship
sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
Totten.
To send for, to request or require by message
to come or be brought.
Send (?), 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?, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W.
hynt a way, journey, OIr. s?t. Cf. Sense.]
1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to
commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
I have not sent these prophets, yet they
ran.
Jer. xxiii. 21.
I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of
myself, but he sent me.
John viii. 42.
Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat
longer than the message requires.
Swift.
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.
He . . . sent letters by posts on
horseback.
Esther viii. 10.
O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead
me.
Ps. xliii. 3.
3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to
hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
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.
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation,
and rebuke.
Deut. xxviii. 20.
And sendeth rain on the just and on the
unjust.
Matt. v. 45.
God send your mission may bring back
peace.
Sir W. Scott.