wend
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1. wend - Noun
2. wend - Verb
Meaning
p. p. of Wene.
To go; to pass; to betake one's self.
To turn round.
To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.
A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.
When the dead, and their deeds that die not shall awaken, And the world's tale shall sound in your trumpet of warning, And the sun smite the banner called Scorn of the Scorning, And dead pain ye shall trample, dead fruitless desire, As ye wend to pluck out the new world from the fire.
wend your way through the crowds
From the exquisite vocal refrain that Kouyate’s lines wend around on the opener, “Kanougnon,” through the closing seven-minute elegy to his mother, Ngoni Ba’s inexhaustible font of melody offers a cheery riposte to the age of austerity.
And it wend to their CEOs.
Eventually, our true blue Aussie smoke will wend its way to Europe, whose residents will probably assume that some negligent Eurovision contestant has left their smoke machine running – and in a way, Australia has.