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Propensity. [R.]

Inclining forward or toward. South.

To hold out; to stretch forth. [Obs.] With his protended lance he makes defence. Dryden .

See Provand. [Obs.]

animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed. "Hay or other provender." Mortimer. Good provender laboring horses would have. Tusser.

The external organs of generation.

Of or pertaining to the pudenda, or pudendum.

The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva.

The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. Mrs. Browning.

To ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again. He mounts aloft, and reascends the skies. Addison.

To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body. Mæcenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, who…

Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable. Glanvill. -- Rec`om*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Rec`om*mend"a*bly, adv.

The act of recommending.

That which recommends; a recommendation. [Obs.]

Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift.

One who recommends.

A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease. Cruise.

To descend again. Howell.

To endow again.

An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions. "Referendaries, or masters of request." Harmar.