scend

== English == === Etymology === A corruption of send, influenced by ascend. === Noun === scend (plural scends) The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement. === Verb === scend (third-person singular simple present scends, present participle scending, simple past and past participle scended) (intransitive) To heave upward. == Middle English == === Verb === scend (West Riding) alternative form of schenden