'scend' definitions:
Definition of 'scend'
(from WordNet)
verb
Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave; "the boats surged" [syn: scend, surge]
Definition of 'scend'
From: GCIDE
- Send \Send\, n. (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [Written also scend.] --W. C. Russell. "The send of the sea". --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scend'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- be poised,
- billow,
- bore,
- break,
- breakers,
- chop,
- choppiness,
- chopping sea,
- comb,
- comber,
- crash,
- dash,
- dirty water,
- eagre,
- ebb and flow,
- flounder,
- gravity wave,
- ground swell,
- heave,
- heavy sea,
- heavy swell,
- hobbyhorse,
- lift,
- lop,
- lurch,
- make heavy weather,
- peak,
- pitch,
- pitch and toss,
- plunge,
- popple,
- pound,
- rear,
- reel,
- riffle,
- ripple,
- rise,
- rise and fall,
- rock,
- roll,
- roller,
- rough water,
- sea,
- send,
- smash,
- surf,
- surge,
- sway,
- swell,
- swing,
- tidal bore,
- tidal wave,
- tide wave,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- trough,
- tsunami,
- tumble,
- undulate,
- undulation,
- wallow,
- water wave,
- wave,
- wavelet,
- welter,
- white horses,
- whitecaps,
- yaw