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verb

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

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." "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."

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

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!" "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)

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.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Sending'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sending" Quotes from Famous Books

... was but sixteen at this time, the resolution which she displayed in sending such a message was considerable. The early English held almost Roman notions on the nature of parental authority, and the tone of a child to a father was usually that of the most submissive reverence. Nor was she contented with replying indirectly through her ...

— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude

... dearest Niece: Hail to the happy day! 'Way down here in South Africa, 'mong monkeys and Boers, I feel the excitement. We don't graduate down here, but we know people who do. Never, I know, has the house of De Smythe been so shaken. In honor thereof, I am sending a—a—" O, goodness, I can't—"a diamond ring,"—a ...

— The Sweet Girl Graduates • Rea Woodman

... and set afloat on the Mississippi. I had no wish to court danger—shrank from the thought of brute force; but if I let this man escape, his power, now tottering, would be re-established; slavery triumphant in the great Northwest; Minnesota confirmed a democratic strong-hold, sending delegates of dough-faces to Congress to aid in the great conspiracy against the nation's life. So I told the messenger that I would continue to support Buchanan's administration, that I would pile my support upon it until it broke down under ...

— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

... of surcharged steam to oxidate the iron with which it is in contact, as is illustrated by the familiar process for making hydrogen gas by sending steam through a red hot tube filled with pieces of iron; and although the action of the surcharged steam in a boiler is necessarily very much weaker than where the iron is red hot, it manifestly must have some oxidizing effect, and the amount of corrosion produced may be very material where ...

— A Catechism of the Steam Engine • John Bourne

... when summer was approaching, and the sun, for the first time in the year was sending her streamers above the horizon, and when his sweetheart Lola stood with arms outstretched over the cold snow and ice towards him, pleading and sending forth her last appeal to his stony heart, he walked out across the white table-land towards the south, and was ...

— Skookum Chuck Fables - Bits of History, Through the Microscope • Skookum Chuck (pseud for R.D. Cumming)

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