Definition of "hend" [hend]

• To take hold of; to grasp, hold. (verb)

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• "If one decides that it was borrowed, there's no more obvious and more direct source than Latin pre-hend- I can think of currently, yet as we all agree, it has it's share of problems."
• "From this implied Latin verb root *hend-, we are certainly free to muse light-heartedly on how we can obtain *handus 'grasper' from it, and very curiously, noting on how it rhymes with the attested Latin word for 'hand', manus."
• "But do thou, O my son, don the cap and hend the rod in hand and enter the place where thy wife and children are."