ostend

See also: Ostend

English

Etymology

Latin ostendere (“to show”).

Verb

ostend (third-person singular simple present ostends, present participle ostending, simple past and past participle ostended)

1. To exhibit or show
   • 1602 (first performance), Thomas Dickers [i.e., Thomas Dekker], Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat. […], London: […] E[dward] A[llde] for Thomas Archer, […], published 1607, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat (The Tudor Facsimile Texts; 22), [Amersham, Buckinghamshire: s.n.], 1914, →OCLC:

     Mercy to mean offenders we'll ostend.

References

• “ostend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Donets, Dotens, doesn't, stoned