Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Wend"

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

Wend \Wend\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wended}, Obs. {Went}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Wending}.] [AS. wendan to turn, to go, caus. of
windan to wind; akin to OS. wendian, OFries. wenda, D. wenden
to turn, G. wenden, Icel. venda, Sw. v["a]nda, Dan. vende,
Goth. wandjan. See {Wind} to turn, and cf. {Went}.]
1. To go; to pass; to betake one's self. ``To Canterbury they
wend.'' --Chaucer.

To Athens shall the lovers wend. --Shak.

2. To turn round. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.

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

Wend \Wend\, obs.
p. p. of {Wene}. --Chaucer.

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

Wend \Wend\, v. t.
To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend
one's way. Also used reflexively. ``Great voyages to wend.''
--Surrey.

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

Wend \Wend\, n. (O. Eng. Law)
A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit. [Obs.]
--Burrill.

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

Wends \Wends\, n. pl.; sing. {Wend}. (Ethnol.)
A Slavic tribe which once occupied the northern and eastern
parts of Germany, of which a small remnant exists.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

wend
v : direct one's course or way


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