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Send v. t. (past & past part. sent; pres. part. sending)

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." "I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me." "Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires."

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." "O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me."

To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.

To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition. "God send him well!" "The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke." "And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." "God send your mission may bring back peace."

Send v. i. (past & past part. sent; pres. part. sending)

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?"

(Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.

To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought.

noun

Send n. (Written also scend) (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. "The send of the sea".

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"Send" Quotes from Famous Books

... life later on," Crawshay observed coolly. "Now you can do one of three things. You can come with me to the captain, be put in irons and shot as soon as we land—or before, if the Blucher finds us; or you can send the message which I shall give you; or you can end your ...

— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... woman and a re-establishment of her natural rights. Turkey, France, England, Switzerland, Italy, sustain papers devoted to woman's enfranchisement. A Grand International Woman's Rights Congress is to be held in Paris, in September of this year, to which the whole world is invited to send delegates, and this congress is to be under the management of the most renowned liberals of Europe. Come up, then, friends, and celebrate the silver wedding of the woman suffrage movement. Let our twenty-fifth anniversary ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... Of Poix,(232) the Mar'echale de Luxembourg, Duchess de Lauzun, Ducs de Gontaut(233) et de Chabot, and Caraccioli, round her chaise longue; and she herself was not a dumb personage. I have not heard yet how she has slept, and must send away my letter this moment, as I must dress to go to dinner with Monsieur de Malesherbes at Madame de Villegagnon's. I must repose a great while after all this living in company; nay, intend to go very little into the world again, as I do ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole

... belong to all." But to stave off such a cataclysm, there stood don Ramon, the scourge of the wicked, the champion of "the cause" which he led to triumph, gun in hand, at election time; and just as he was able to send any rebellious trouble-maker off to the penal settlement, so he found it easy to keep at liberty all those who, despite the various murders that figured in their biographies, lent themselves to the service of the government in this support of ...

— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... You see I never had to take that horrid name because of the title. I suppose I'd better send the letter to ...

— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope

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