hend
adjEtymology From Middle English hende, from Old English ġehende, from Proto-West Germanic *gahandī.
hend
verb/hɛnd/
Etymology From Middle English henden, from Old English *hendan, ġehendan (“take hold of”), from Proto-Germanic *handijaną (“to grasp; grab by hand”). Cognate with Old Frisian henda (“to take hold of; seize”), Icelandic henda (“to take hold of by hand; seize; fling”).
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Obsolete To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
- She flew at him like to an hellish feend, And on his shield tooke hold with all her might, As if that it she would in peeces rend, Or reave out of the hand that did it hend1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Presently the cloud opened and behold, within it was that Jinni hending in hand a drawn sword, while his eyes were shooting fire sparks of rage.1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, volume 1:
- Derived terms
- overhend