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1. transitiveTo direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.

   We wended our weary way westward.

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   And ſtill her thought that ſhe was left alone / Uncompanied great viages to wende.

   1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Fowrth Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, →OCLC

   The Merovingian Kings, slowly wending on their bullock-carts through the streets of Paris, with their long hair flowing, have all wended slowly on,—into Eternity.

   1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Realised Ideals”, in The French Revolution: A History

   Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v. Tennessee has taken a few years to wend its way to Supreme Court oral argument, and that argument will be keyed to the parties’ objections to the report of a court-appointed special master.

   2021 October 1, Robin Craig, “In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater”, in SCOTUSblog

   This evidentiary lead had then wended its way from the NCA’s child exploitation investigations team to the computer crime team

   2022 April 7, Andy Greenberg, “Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site”, in WIRED

2. obsoletetransitiveTo turn; change, to adapt.
3. intransitiveobsoleteTo turn; make a turn; go round; veer.

   with the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold water

   c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse on the Invention of Ships &c.

4. intransitiveobsoleteTo pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

plural wends

1. UKobsoletelawA large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.

plural Wends

1. A member of a Slavic people from the borders of Germany and Poland; a Sorb; a Kashub.
2. A Slavic person living anywhere in the vicinity of German-speaking areas.