| Back | hent \hent\ |
|---|---|
| Front | verb To seize. [Hent, an ancient word, entered Old English before the year 1000 as a relative of the verbs hentan "to pursue" and huntian "to hunt."] "Then he hent in hand two stones and went round about the city…" - Lady Isabel Burton, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Lady Burton's Edition of Her Husband's Arabian Nights "So they hent him by the hand and thrust him out; and I took the lute and sang over again the songs of my own composing which the damsel had sung." - Emile Van Vliet, The Thousand Nights and A Night |
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