send forth

English

Etymology

Reanalysis of earlier forthsend, from Middle English *forthsenden, from Old English forþsendan.

Verb

send forth (third-person singular simple present sends forth, present participle sending forth, simple past and past participle sent forth)

1. (transitive, literary, archaic) To emit; to produce; to let out
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:

     She shuddered and was silent, holding down her head on her husband's breast. When she raised it, his white nightrobe was stained with blood where her lips had touched, and where the thin open wound in the neck had sent forth drops.

Anagrams

• forthsend