Definition of "send" []

• To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination: send goods by plane. (verb-transitive)
• To dispatch, as by a communications medium: send a message by radio. (verb-transitive)
• To direct to go on a mission: sent troops into the Middle East. (verb-transitive)
• To require or enable to go: sent her children to college. (verb-transitive)
• To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer: sent the student to the reference section of the library. (verb-transitive)

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• "_I send away_; comp. of prep, ἀπό, _off_, and στέλλω, _I send_; root στελ, vowel changed, § 63; aug. cuts off final ο of prep.,"
• "Well, this wretched ape must needs send -- _send_, mind you, not come down and himself ask, but _send_ -- for a man to move some furniture up at the house there."
• "Here is the order to send a cargo, with a _please to send_; so the factor may let it alone if he does not please. ["