Send
Send , transitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon sendan; akin to Old Saxon sendian, Dutch zenden, German senden, Old High German senten, Icelandic senda, Swedish sanda, Danish sende, Gothic sandjan, and to Gothic sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, Old High German sind journey, Anglo-Saxon sī{not transcribed}, Icelandic sinni a walk, journey, a time. Welsh hynt a way, journey, OIr. s{not transcribed}t. Compare 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.
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 , intransitive verb
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.
(Nautical) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. — Totten
Collocations (1)
To send for , to request or require by message to come or be brought.
Send , noun
(Nautical) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. — Longfellow
The send of the sea