wend

Verb
US[wend]/wɛnd/1 syllable

Open English WordNet

Verb (1)wends, wended, wending

  1. direct one's course or way“wend your way through the crowds”More general travel, go
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Wend (wĕnd)

obs. past participle of Wene. Geoffrey Chaucer

Wend intransitive verb [past tense & past participle Wended, obsolete. Went; present participle & verbal noun Wending.]

Origin: 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. vända, 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.” Geoffrey Chaucer

To Athens shall the lovers wend.— William Shakespeare

2. To turn round. obsolete Sir Walter Raleigh

Wend transitive verb

To direct; to betake; — used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively. “Great voyages to wend.” Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Wend noun

O. Eng. Law A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit. obsolete Alexander Mansfield. Burrill

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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