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ˈmending, vbl. n.
[f. mend v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. mend in various senses.
a. Amendment, correction, improvement.
a1300Cursor M. 26867 [Þou agh to] here his scrift and giue him rede þat to sum mendyng him mai lede. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 452 Bot vchon..wolde her corounez wern worþe þe fyue, If possyble wer her mendyng. 1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. iii. 239 Happy are they that heare their detractions, and can put them to mending. 1631Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 55 If a man soe enter his children's names into the Church booke it is noe offence, and it is not like the mending of a sealed Indenture or a Record. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xliv, Yours was not an ill for mending, 'Twas best to take it to the grave.
b. † The action of healing (obs.); the action or process of advancing towards recovery. Also attrib., esp. in phrase † on (upon, in, of) the mending hand (see hand n. 4 b). So also † at a mending hand (obs.), in a mending way.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xli. (Agnes) 10 Al sekmen of his tweching of verray heile gettis mending. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. ii. (1847) 90, I look every day to depart, my mending days coming very seld. 1658A. Fox tr. Wurtz' Surg. iii. xxiii. 291 Go on..till you see and perceave that the member is at a mending hand. 1710–11Swift Jrnl. to Stella 10 Mar., He has no fever, and the hopes of his mending increase. 1753N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 23 She was repurged with Success, whence they judged her in a mending Way.
c. The action or process of repairing (something decayed, worn, etc.); an instance of this. Also techn. (see quot. 1891) and attrib.
1395E.E. Wills (1882) 11 Y bequeth to þ⊇ Mendyng of þe heye way..xl.s. 1429–30Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1904) 72 Also for mendynge of þe sepulcre xvj d. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. v. i. 263 Why this is like the mending of high waies In Sommer. 1869Phillips Vesuv. ii. 33 The pavement except by occasional mendings may be readily believed to have been laid by Pelasgian hands. 1891Labour Commission Gloss., Mending, replacing (in woven worsted-coating pieces) threads of warp or of weft dropped by the weaver.
attrib.1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain I. vii. 63 Ethel had to fetch her mending-basket. 1863‘G. Hamilton’ Gala-Days 41, I find myself in a mending-basket. 1867A. D. Whitney Summer in L. Goldthwaite's Life viii. 165 What should we do without our mending-day? 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework s.v., Mending Cottons..may be had both white and unbleached. 1885Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 1385 Silks... Spun Mending, Black and Colours. 1899A. Nicholas Idyl of Wabash 18 Taking his hose from the mending basket and darning them. 1966Olney Amsden & Sons Ltd. Price List 28 Mending cotton, white only. 1974J. Stubbs Painted Face vii. 107 Bessie..opened her mending basket.
2. concr.
a. pl. Articles to be repaired. rare. (Also in sing.)
1863B. Jerrold Signals Distress 98 Workmen were busy over ‘boys'’ strong boots and mendings. 1891Harper's Mag. Sept. 579/1 Mrs. Dorset was on the bench in the porch, the basket of mending by her.
b. pl. Short for mending yarns.
1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, Mendings, these yarns are composed of a mixture of cotton and wool, and designed for the darning of Merino stockings.
c. A repaired place; a ‘mend’. rare.
1886Housewife I. 109/2 [Darning.] Grafting can only be done when the new piece matches the old..and the mending is to be of large size.
†3. = mendment 2. dial.
1707Mortimer Husb. 13 Which [sc. overflowing of rivers] brings the Soil of the Up-lands upon them, so that they need no other mending. 1855Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 724 Mending, (Lanc.), manuring.
4. mending up: see quot. 1892. Also attrib.
1885[Horner] Pattern Making 225 Mending up with sweeps becomes necessary... We then have an unbroken lower edge by which to guide the mending up sweep. 1892― Princ. Pattern Making 156 Mending up, the necessary repairs done to a mould after it has become damaged by the rapping and the withdrawal of the pattern. Mending up piece, any strip, sweep, or block, which is used as a guide to obtain or to restore the damaged contour of a section of a sand mould. |