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third-person singular simple present hends, present participle hending, simple past and past participle hended
(obsolete) To take hold of; to grasp, hold. quotations
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 hend
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
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
(obsolete, poetic) Pleasant in manner, courteous, gentle, kind.