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Wending

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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wending

n. 1 act of going, course 2 direction vb. (present participle of wend English)

Usage examples of "wending".

It was no wonder, therefore, when anon he was wending his way slowly back to his lodging he was accosted by a pleasant, cheerful voice, that he responded to it with alacrity.

They were traveling along a road that was wending its way up into the forested foothills north of Krondor.

There he found the warriors of his House and of the Bearings and the lesser Houses of Mid-mark, all duly ordered for wending through the wood.

The dinner to which only a few of the elect had been bidden was over, and now those who had been invited to the less exclusive reception which was to follow were eagerly wending their way towards Park Lane.

A moment later they were drawn into the stream of people wending their way by twos and threes towards the ballroom.

An arch of rambler roses led into the distant part of the garden towards which she was wending her way, its powdering of tiny blossoms gleaming like star clusters borrowed from the Milky Way.

Wiiin and the Khagggun Wing had decamped the highland slopes south of Stone Border, glumly wending their way back whence they had come.

A single chariot was wending its way up the hill, accompanied not by a retinue of knights, but by three scruffy-looking men-at-arms who slouched low in their saddles.

A wagon was standing there, a simple freight-hauler almost indistinguishable from those Kaspar had seen wending their way though the streets of his own city.

Also, the climate is Mediterranean-mild, and since I was wending more or less southward, I scarcely noticed when autumn became winter and winter became spring.

Ahead the sun flared with brightening splendor and below writhed the wendings of a valley laced with the silver of running water.