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To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
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(RQ:Coverdale Bible) ſawe other two brethren, the Great|James the ſonne of Zebede, and the Apostle|Jhon his brother, in the ſhip with Zebede their father, mendynge their nettes, and called them. And they without tarynge lefte y&868; ſhyp and their father, and folowed hym.
(RQ:Swift Journal to Stella)
(RQ:Austen Mansfield Park)
(RQ:Faulkner Moses)
(RQ:Jonson Bartholomew Fair)
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To correct or right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
(RQ:Shakespeare Comedy of Errors). (..) She ſvveats a man may goe ouer-ſhooes in the grime of it. / ''Anti''(quote-gloss). That's a fault that vvater vvill mend.
(RQ:Moxon Mechanick Exercises)
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(RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 1)
(RQ:Shelley Cenci) left me so / In poverty, the which I sought to mend / By holding a poor office in the state.
To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to right.
(RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes)
(RQ:Bacon Learning)'' obſerueth hovv rarely raiſing of the fortune mendeth the diſpoſition, (..)
(RQ:Grew Plants) loſe their ''Smell'', as ''Roſes''; others, keep it, as ''Roſemary''; and others, mend it, as ''Lignum Aloes'', (..)
(RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress) to have but a poor imploy in the vvorld, but by becoming Religious, he may mend his market, perhaps get a rich VVife, or more and far better cuſtomers to his ſhop. For my part, I ſee no reaſon but that this may be lavvfully done.
(RQ:Dryden Fables) ''Chaucer'' has refin'd on ''Boccace'' (quote-gloss), and has mended the Stories vvhich he has borrovv'd, in his vvay of telling; (..)
(RQ:Mortimer Husbandry)
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(RQ:Cowper Poems)
(RQ:Scott Lord of the Isles), may send / A shaft shall mend our cheer.
(RQ:Hunt Men Women) came up to mend the reputation, were not thought very clever.
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
(RQ:Tennyson Maud)
(RQ:Eliot Romola), as a young man of promise, who was expected to mend the broken fortunes of his ancient family.
(RQ:Le Fanu House)
(RQ:Morris Earthly Paradise)
To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
(RQ:Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Q1-2)|footer=Used in an oath.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2 Q1)
(RQ:Temple Miscellanea) therefore thought all the Service they could do to the State they live under, vvas to mend the Lives and Manners of particular Men that compoſed it.
(RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield)
(RQ:Swinburne Chastelard)
(RQ:Twain Prince and the Pauper)
(RQ:Synge Playboy), ''To Pegeen.'' I was passing below, and I seen your mountainy sheep eating cabbages in Jimmy's field. Run up or they'll be bursting, surely. / (smallcaps) Oh, God mend them!|footer=Used in an oath.
''In'' mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or up (a pace).
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet Q1-2)
(quote-book) &91;Dick Woodfall|Woodfall and Kinder&93; for the author,(nb...)|year=1856|page=25|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=aTHnWKvN-hUC&pg=PA25|oclc=560389225|passage=When children to the school at morn did pass / With basket-store, thou (quote-gloss) mendedst then thy pace, / And boldly into every school-bag spied / With insolent but inoffensive pride, / Till, bit by bit, the morning lunch was thine, / And off you sauntered as the clock struck nine.
To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.
(RQ:Dryden Georgics)
To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to on; also, to produce something better than (something else).
(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1)
(RQ:Shakespeare Timon of Athens)
(RQ:Shaw Ibsenism) Shakespear(quote-gloss), in ''(w)'', made a drama of the self-questioning that came upon him when his intellect rose up in alarm, as well it might, against the vulgar optimism of his ''V (play)|Henry V.'', and yet could mend it to no better purpose than by the equally vulgar pessimism of ''(w)''.
To amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone.
(RQ:John Heywood Proverbs)
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
(RQ:Lamb Essays of Elia)
(RQ:Buchan Island of Sheep)
To adjust or correctly position (something; specifically , a sail).
(RQ:Shakespeare All's Well)
(RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra) / Ile mend it, and then play— (..)
(RQ:Jonson Staple of News) The Tiremen enter to mend the lights.
(RQ:Dryden Lee Duke of Guise) Your Air, your Meen, your Charms, your every Grace, / VVill Kill at leaſt your thouſand in a day. / ''Mar''(quote-gloss). (..) Yes, I vvou'd make vvith every Glance a Murder. / Mend me this Curle.
(RQ:Marryat Newton Forster)
To outVerb|put out (a candle).
To add one or more things in order to improve (something, especially wages); to supplement; also, to remedy a shortfall in (something).
(RQ:Shakespeare Comedy of Errors)
(RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It). (..) Buy thou the Cottage, paſture, and the flocke, / And thou ſhalt haue to pay for it of vs. / Celia (As You Like It)|''Cel''(quote-gloss). And vve vvill mend thy vvages: / I like this place, and vvillingly could / VVaſte my time in it.
To reform (oneself).
(RQ:Shakespeare Twelfth Night)
To improve the condition or fortune of (oneself or someone).
(RQ:Bacon Essayes)
(RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress)vice vvas hard, and your vvages ſuch as a man could not live on, ''for the vvages of Sin is death'' (quote-gloss); therefore vvhen I vvas come to years, I did as other conſiderate perſons do, look out, if perhaps I might mend my ſelf.
(RQ:Defoe Crusoe 2)
(RQ:Burke Revolution in France)
To repair the clothes of (someone).
(RQ:Dickens Pickwick Papers)
(RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan Sorcerer)
''Chiefly with the (glossary) (glossary)'' it: to provide a benefit to (someone); to advantage, to profit.
Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured part: to better, to heal.
(RQ:Buchan Watcher)
Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
(RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge)
(RQ:Buchan Witch Wood), and ye'll mend quick if ye let the clouts bide a wee.|footer=Written in Scots.|brackets=on
''Now only in'' said, soonest mended: to make amends or reparation.
(RQ:Marryat Pirate)
(RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Night and Morning)
(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear Q1) / Mend vvhen thou canſt, be better at thy leaſure, / I can be patient, (..)
(RQ:Howell Epistolae) but it is never over-late to mend: therefore I begin, and do penance in this vvhite ''ſheet'' for vvhat is paſs'd; I hope you vvill do the like, and ſo vve may ''abſolve'' one another vvithout a Ghoſtly Father.
(RQ:Burns Poems)! / O would you take a thought and mend!|footer=Written in Scots.|brackets=on
(RQ:Black Princess of Thule) but I hope to see you mend when you marry.
(RQ:Montgomery Anne of Avonlea)
(quote-book)|location=Saint Andrews, Fife, Scotland|publisher=(...) Raban (printer)|Edward Raban, printer to the of St Andrews|Vniversitie &91;of Saint Andrews&93;|year=1622|section=section I (Comprehending All the Rules of Preparation,(nb...))|page=6|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=D-tmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA6|oclc=316389990|passage=An evill pen, is that vvhich is ſouple or vveake, vvhich vvhen thou makeſt, or mendeſt, muſt haue a ſhort ſlit, and bee ſuffered to remaine great on both ſides, becauſe it is vveake; (..)
(RQ:Mayhew London Labour)
(RQ:Besant Fifty Years Ago) Why they went through this elaborate pretence I have not the least idea, because everybody knew that every girl in the place was always making, mending, cutting-out, basting, gusseting, trimming, turning, and contriving. How do you suppose that the solicitor's daughters made so brave a show on Sundays if they were not clever enough to make up things for themselves?
To advance to a better state; to become less bad or faulty; to improve.
(RQ:Howell Epistolae)
(RQ:Addison Italy)
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(RQ:Berkeley Querist)
Of an error, fault, etc.: to be corrected or put right.
''Followed by'' of: to recover from a bad state; to get better, to out of.
Of an animal: to gain weight, to fatten.
(non-gloss)
An act of repairing.
A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
''Chiefly in'' the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
(RQ:London Adventure)
(senseid) Recompense; restoration or reparation, especially from sin.
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