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    Send , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sent ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sending.] [AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G. senden, OHG. senten, Icel. senda, Sw. sända, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. sī, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. st.  Cf. Sense.]
    1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
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      I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
      Jer. xxiii. 21.

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      I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
      John viii. 42.

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

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    2. To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
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      He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback.
      Esther viii. 10.

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      O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me.
      Ps. xliii. 3.

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    3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
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    4. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition. “God send him well!”  
      Shak.

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      The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
      Deut. xxviii. 20.

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      And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
      Matt. v. 45.

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      God send your mission may bring back peace.
      Sir W. Scott.

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    Send , v. i.
    1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
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      See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
      2 Kings vi. 32.

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

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      To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought.
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    Send, n. (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [Written also scend.] W. C. Russell. “The send of the sea”.  
    Longfellow.

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