The Collaborative International Dictionary
Send \Send\, v. i.
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To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
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2. (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
--Totten.To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought.
Usage examples of "to send for".
A girl so badly abused that I have to send for the Hand, and then deal with screams at night, is not.
So I got snotty and said he was trying to cheat me-put me in a position where I would have to send for him and pay through the nose to get my property unlocked.
When he came back to his senses, he asked one of the sisters to send for Doctor Peyron.
Though indeed, if you wound and scar me too greatly it might spoil the king's pleasure when he chooses to send for me, might it not?
Douglas made the decision to send for his brothers, and continued on to the physician's house.
Bayler's services were desperately needed on Midway Island and the decision had been made to send for him, even at the great risk of losing him, and the Catalina carrying him, in the attempt.
She had planned to send for her sister, but the girl had died of pneumonia that winter, after she had left.