Send. To send up, verb. phr. (American).—To commit to prison; to fully (q.v.).
1852. Judson, Myst. of New York, 111. 7. They'd blow on me for some of my work, and I'd be sent up.
1879. Scribner's, viii. 619. Some of them seem rather proud of the number of times they have been sent up.
1888. Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. They sent me up for thirty days.
TO SEND DOWN (or AWAY), verb. phr. (University).—1. To expel; and (2) to rusticate (q.v.).
1714. Spectator, 596. After this I was deeply in love with a milliner, and at last with my bedmaker, upon which I was sent away, or, in university phrase, rusticated for ever.
1863. Kingsley, Austin Elliot, i. 179. How dare you say 'deuce' in my presence? You can go down, my Lord.
1891. Harry Fludyer, 89. Next day they were hauled and sent down.
1891. Felstedian, Ap. 32. They sent him down for two terms for smashing a shop window.
To SEND IN, verb. phr. (old).—'To drive or break in: Hand down the jemmy and send it in; apply the crow to the door and drive it in' (Grose).
See Coventry; Daylight; Flea in ear; Green River; Owls; Packing; Salt River; Up.
Send-off, subs. phr. (colloquial).—A
start; a God-speed. Send-off
notice = an obituary.
1872. Clemens, Roughing It, 332. One of the boys has passed in his checks, and we want to give him a good send off.
1876. Besant and Rice, Golden Butterfly . . . After the funeral Huggins . . . wrote a beautiful send-off notice saying what a loss the community had suffered in Scrimmy's untimely end.
1889. Pall Mall Gaz., 16 Nov., 6, 1. It looks as if Adelina Patti's send-off concert on Monday night would be a very brilliant affair.
1894. Morrison, Mean Streets, 132. In the beginning [he] might even have been an office boy, if only his mother had been able to give him a good send off in the matter of clothes.
1897. Referee, 14 Mar. 1, 1. These departers were to be patted on the back, given a good send-off, and helped on the road.
Sender, subs. (common).—A severe
blow.
Sensation, subs. (common).—A
small quantity; as much as can
be perceived by the senses: spec.
a half-quartern.
Sense, verb. (once literary; now
American colloquial.—To feel;
to take in; to understand.
1651. Cartwright, Poems [Nares]. 'Twas writ, not to be understood, but read, He that expounds it must come from the dead; and undertake to sense it true, For he can tell more than himself e'er knew.
1665. Glanville, Scepsis, Scientifica, xxii. Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others, than they are by him?
1885. Merriam, S. Bowles, 1, 101. He . . . got at the plans of the leaders, the temper of the crowd, sensed the whole situation.
Sentimental-club (The), subs.
phr. (literary).—The Athenæum.
Sentimental-journey. To
ARRIVE AT THE END OF THE
SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, phr.
(common).—To possess a woman
[That, so it is said, being the
finish of Sterne's novel—'I put
out my hand and caught hold of
the fille-de-chambre's .
Finis'].
