Definition of tend

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Tend (a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction..

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Tumored :: Tumored (a.) Distended; swelled.
Convellent :: Convellent (a.) Tending to tear or pull up.
Affected :: Affected (p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.
Escharotic :: Escharotic (a.) Serving or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic.
Ventail :: Ventail (n.) That part of a helmet which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor..
Teething :: Teething (n.) The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition..
Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon..
Intendancy :: Intendancy (n.) A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.
Vomito :: Vomito (n.) The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit..
Nonattendance :: Nonattendance (n.) A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.
Jetty :: Jetty (n.) A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
Regenerative :: Regenerative (a.) Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences..
Colon :: Colon (n.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion..
Cohesive :: Cohesive (a.) Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay..
Improving :: Improving (a.) Tending to improve, beneficial; growing better..
Fight :: Fight (v. t.) To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours..
Ureide :: Ureide (n.) Any one of the many complex derivatives of urea; thus, hydantoin, and, in an extended dense, guanidine, caffeine, et., are ureides..
Metre :: Metre (n.) A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric..
Spread :: Spread (v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty..
Seneschal :: Seneschal (n.) An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands..
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