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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.

Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.

view falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. -- To fall on. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. "Fall on…

of the knowing mind; objective, that which is in the constant nature of the thing known. Trendelenburg. Objective means that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the object known, and not from the subject knowing, and thus denotes what is real, in opposition to that which is ideal -- what exists in nature, in contrast…

certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast. Which way the forests range. Dryden.