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Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting. From the attendant flotilla rang notes triumph. Sir W. Scott. Cherub and Seraph . . . attendant on their Lord. Milton.

Intent. [Obs.] Spenser.

One who, or that which, attends.

An attendant circumstance. [Obs.] The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.

A secret enemy. [Obs.] South.

A barkeeper.

To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.

Act of befriending. [R.]

aining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.

Capable of being bent.

One who, or that which, bends.

The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

Diagonally.

Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. Cussans.

Tennessee; -- a nickname.

, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival.

A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.

The act of mingling.