King James Bible Dictionary

MEND, verb transitive [Latin emendo, menda, a fault, spot or blemish.]

1. To repair, as a breach; to supply a part broken or defective; as, to mend a garment, a road, a mill-dam, a fence, etc.

2. To correct; to set right; to alter for the better; as, to mend the life or manners.

3. To repair; to restore to a sound state; as, to mend a feeble or broken constitution.

4. To help; to advance; to make better.

This plausible apology does not mend the matter.

Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.

5. To improve; to hasten.

He saw the monster mend his pace.

MEND, verb intransitive To grow better; to advance to a better state; to improve. We say, a feeble constitution mends daily; a sick man mends, or is convalescent.

MEND'ABLE, adjective Capable of being mended.

MENDA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin mendax.] Lying; false. [Little used.]

MENDAC'ITY, noun [Latin mendax, false, lying.] Falsehood.

[The proper signification of this word would be a disposition to lie, or habitual lying.]

MEND'ED, participle passive Repaired; made better; improved.

MEND'ER, noun One who mends or repairs.

MEND'ICANCY, adjective [Latin medicans.] Beggary; a state of begging.

MEND'ICANT, adjective [Latin mendicans, from mendico, to beg; allied to Latin mando, to command, demand.]

1. Begging; poor to a state of beggary; as reduced to a mendicant state.

2. Practicing beggary; as a mendicant friar.

MEND'ICANT, noun A beggar; one that makes it his business to beg alms; one of the begging fraternity of the Romish church.

MEND'ICATE, verb transitive To beg, or practice begging. [Not used.]

MENDIC'ITY,noun [Latin mendicitas.]

The state of begging; the life of a beggar.

MENDMENT, for amendment. [Not in use.]

MENDS, for amends, not used.