Send

Definition of Send

v. t.

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

[imp. & p. p. Sent ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Sending.]

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.

- Jer. xxiii. 21.

I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

- John viii. 42.

Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires.

- Swift.

To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.

He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback.

- Esther viii. 10.

O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me.

- Ps. xliii. 3.

To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.

To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; - sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.

- Deut. xxviii. 20.

And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

- Matt. v. 45.

God send your mission may bring back peace.

- Sir W. Scott.

v. i.

To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.

See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?

- 2 Kings vi. 32.

(Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.

To send for
to request or require by message to come or be brought.

(Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.

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