WEND

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

p. p. of Wene. Chaucer.

2.
v.

To go; to pass; to betake one's self. "To Canterbury they wend." Chaucer. To Athens shall the lovers wend. Shak.

3.
v.

To turn round. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

4.
v.

To direct; to betake;- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively. "Great voyages to wend." Surrey.

5.
n.

A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit. [Obs.] Burrill.

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