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trending, vbl. n.|ˈtrɛndɪŋ|
Also 8 trinding.
[f. trend v. + -ing1.]
The action of trend v.
†1. Turning round, revolution, rotation. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. i. (Tollem. MS.), Meuynge haþ cause firste and principally of trendynge [1535 trendlynge] aboute of heuen. Ibid. xi. x, Of his longe trendynge [1535 trendlynge] aboute comeþ his roundnesse.
b. The winding of wool in a top: see trend v. 2 b. dial.
1794Young's Ann. Agric. XXVI. 455 [I] send you, by Drew, a trinded top of wool..with the locks left out of it at trinding.
2. The fact or manner of turning, bending away, or taking a general (specified) direction, as a coastline, etc.; general direction, trend.
1600Hakluyt Voy. III. A ij, For the space of fiue thousand leagues..considering the trending of the land. 1697Dryden æneid vii. 200 The Coasts and Trendings of the Crookèd Shore. 1770Cook Voy. round World iii. i. (1773) 484 This point..may be known by the trending of the coast, which is north on the one side, and south-west on the other. 1823Scoresby Jrnl. Whale Fish. 472 Trending differs from bearing, inasmuch as it is..the direction of a coast or line of ice in regard to itself; whereas the bearing usually refers to the direction of an object, in regard to the place of an observer. 1863Kinglake Crimea II. xvi. 222 The trending away of the hills leaves a hollow or recess.
†b. The action of continuing a course. Obs.
1647G. Tooke Belides 30 As a streame descending From his faire heads to sea, becomes in trending More puissant. |