intend (‘purpose, design’ is the commonest sense)
1.
to purpose making (a
journey)
Ant. V. ii. 200
“Cæsar through
Syria I-s his journey,”
Per. I. ii. 116
“I . . . to Tarsus
Intend my travel,”
Sonn. xxvii. 6; also intr.
1H4 IV. i. 92
“The king . . . is set
forth, Or hitherwards intended
speedily.”
2.
to design to express,
signify by one's words, mean
1H6 III. i. 141
“I it not,”
3H6 III. ii. 94,
Ant. II. ii. 44
“How intend you,
practis'd?.”
3.
to pretend, make
pretence of Ado II. ii. 35, Shr. IV. i. 206, R3 III. v. 8,
III. vii. 44
“ some
fear,”
Lucr. 121
“I-ing
weariness.”
4.
to tend, incline
MND. III. ii. 333*,
2H4 I. ii. 8
“anything that i-s to
laughter”
(so Q; Ff “tends”).