Send /(?)/

Send

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Sent; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
    — 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.
  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.
    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.

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

Phrases & Compounds

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

Send

n.
  1. The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. (Naut.)