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verb

Lend v. t. (past & past part. lent; pres. part. lending)

1.

To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; opposed to borrow. "Give me that ring. I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power To give it from me."

2.

To allow the possession and use of, on condition of the return of an equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of food. "Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase."

3.

To afford; to grant or furnish in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend one's name or influence. "Cato, lend me for a while thy patience." "Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions."

4.

To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig. Note: This use of the word is rare in the United States, except with reference to money.

To lend a hand, to give assistance; to help. (Colloq.)

To lend one's ears or To lend an ear, to give attention.

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"Lend" Quotes from Famous Books

... and lend a hand in the press of the season? Well, I don't. Not for twenty year. There's them as calls it folly, but the smell of the hay brings it all back and turns me sick. You say you can't believe such a fine woman as me would be subject to fancies; you think I ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various

... to lend the orgy an atmosphere of gallantry, raised once more his glass and pronounced: "To our ...

— Mademoiselle Fifi • Guy de Maupassant

... glee, and the wind blew a blast, and a fish was upward cast. Then hastened the guide to ope the fish's side, took the liver and the gall, for cure of evil's thrall: liver to give demons flight, gall to restore men's sight. The youth begged his friend these specifics to lend, then went he on his way to where his sick sire lay. Then spake the youth to his father all the truth. "Send not away the guide without pay." The son sought the man, through the city he ran, but the man had disappeared. ...

— The Book of Delight and Other Papers • Israel Abrahams

... the story of the fabrication of Eve to be regarded as one of those pre-Abrahamic narratives, the historical truth of which is an open question, in face of the reference to it in a speech unhappily famous for the legal oppression to which it has been wrongfully forced to lend itself? ...

— The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science - Essay #6 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" • Thomas Henry Huxley

... this life. Her descent and her estate were beyond question. Her wayfaring ancestors and her litigious father had done well by Jean. There was ready money and there were broad acres, ready to fall wholly to the husband, to lend dignity to his descendants, and to himself a title, when he should be called upon the Bench. On the side of Jean, there was perhaps some fascination of curiosity as to this unknown male animal that approached her with the roughness of a ploughman and the ...

— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson

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