to send for

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to send for - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Send \Send\, v. i.
     1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or
        to do an errand.
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              See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take
              away my head?                         --2 Kings vi.
                                                    32.
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     2. (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently
        as to endanger her masts. --Totten.
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     To send for, to request or require by message to come or be
        brought.
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