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ssive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer. Send the successive ills through ages down. Prior.

Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension. I came not to send peace, but a sword. Matt. x. 34.

t kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times. Lined with taffeta and with sendal. Chaucer.

One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.

ng Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction.

n consequence, of that; therefore. [He] hopes to find you forward, . . . And thereupon he sends you this good news. Shak.

e number; a bunch; a company; a throng. "The worst of a thrave." [Obs.] Landsdowne MS. He sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale. Bp. Hall.

cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.

A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn. Token money, money which is lawfully current for more than its real value. See Token, n., 4. -- Token sheet (Print.), the last sheet of each token. W. Savage.

The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.

To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another. The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as Clemen…

To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking. Then doth she troll to the bowl. Gammer Gurton's Needle. Troll the brown bowl. Sir W. Scott.

To put or send under. [Obs.]

To strike unseasonably; to affect disagreeably or unfavorably. [Obs.] Why do I send this rustic madrigal, That may thy tuneful ear unseason quite Spenser.

To send up a noise like thunder. [R.] Coleridge.

to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33.

by Shakespeare, that on this day birds begin to mate. Hence, perhaps, arose the custom of sending love tokens at that time.

To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid. [Written also vapour.] He'd laugh to see one throw his heart away, Another, sighing, vapor forth his soul. B. Jonson.

To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.

By the way of; as, to send a letter via Queenstown to London.