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Wended

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.

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wended

vb. (en-past of: wend)

Usage examples of "wended".

Tired women wended their way home replete with milk poured from honeypots, still tingling from the voluptuous dry slither of snakes and remembering the powerful surge of snake muscle, the kiss of a forked tongue, earth broken open to receive the seed, a crown of vine leaves, the eternal female cycle of birth and death.

Thus the two men wended their way on in silence, one preceding the other.

A scribe wended his way through the garden, blinking at all the smoke and the crowd around the Prince.

So wended the Markmen between wood and stream on either side of Mirkwood-water, till now at last the night grew deep and the moon set, and it was hard on midnight, and they had kindled many torches to light them on either side of the water.

Their boot soles rang on the green polished shanstone flooring as they wended their way between fluted columns.

Jay wended his way among the forest of stalagmites feeling more uneasy the farther he went.

Symeon fed these to the hippogriff, the docile beast taking the food from his hand, then wended his way back toward the basilica.

Sir Gareths Knights wended their way across Solamnias plains, from city to town, castle to monastery, never staying in one place for more than a day or two.

Even now, the Pantheons gates stood open, and chanting processions bearing icons of Huma and his lance wended through the citys narrow laneways, toward the great church.

As they wended their way higher into the mountains, the weather got cooler, with the temperature plunging to near freezing at night, despite it being late summer, and soon they passed into forested hills, with many streams to ford.

City of the Dead Gods from the east, so he must have wended his way completely around the mountain to get here.

Beyond the bridge, Elise wended east along the wall where the reflected sun had cleared a narrow path in the snow.

A contented silence settled upon them as the barge wended along the river.

As they wended their way higher into the mountains, the weather got cooler, with the temperature plunging to near-freezing at night, despite it being late summer, and soon they passed into forested hills, with many streams to ford.

Danuvius wended first eastward from Vindobona, then, after some days, turned due south, so it took me and Velox and the bargemen quite quickly into the golden summer that was moving north.