Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Hent"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Hent \Hent\ (h[e^]nt), v. t. [imp. {Hente}; p. p. {Hent}.] [OE.
hente, henten, fr. AS. hentan, gehentan, to pursue, take,
seize; cf. Icel. henda, Goth. hinpan (in compos.), and E.
hunt.]
To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get. [Obs.] --Piers
Plowman. --Spenser.

This cursed Jew him hente and held him fast. --Chaucer.

But all that he might of his friendes hente On bookes
and on learning he it spente. --Chaucer.

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