2. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence,
to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
The best service they could do the state was to mend
the lives of the persons who composed it. --Sir W.
Temple.
3. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it
mends garden herbs and fruit. --Mortimer.
You mend the jewel by the wearing it. --Shak.
Syn: To improve; help; better; emend; amend; correct;
rectify; reform.