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scend definition

scend (send)

noun

the upward heaving of a ship

Etymology: < send, assumed to be aphetic for ascend

intransitive verb

to be heaved upward, as by a wave: said of a ship

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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