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Resplendent in the highest degree. [R.] -- Tran*splen"dent*ly, adv. [R.]

y astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall. A tremendous mischief was a foot. Motley.

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Prov. Eng.]

A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle. [Obs.] The shaft the wheel, the wheel, the trendle turns. Sylvester.

A genus of fossil trees.

To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow.

Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope.

To fail to comprehend. [R.] Daniel.

To spend less than.

Unending; endless. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

One not a friend; an enemy. [R.] Carlyle.

Wanting friends; not befriended; not countenanced or supported. Goldsmith. If Richard indeed does come back, it must be alone, unfollowed, unfriended. Sir W. Scott.

Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.

The state or quality of being unfriendly; unfriendliness; enmity. An act of unfriendship to my sovereign person. Sir W. Scott.

Not reverend.

To end up; to set on end, as a cask.

The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. [Colloq.]

To send, cast, or throw up. As when some island situate afar . . . Upsends a smoke to heaven. Cowper.

pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.