Noah Webster
Intend
INTEND', verb transitive [Latin intendo; in and tendo, to stretch or strain, from teneo; Gr. to stretch.]
1. To stretch; to strain; to extend; to distend.
By this the lungs are intended or remitted.
[This literal sense is now uncommon.]
2. To mean; to design; to purpose, that is, to stretch or set forward in mind. [This is now the usual sense.]
For they intended evil against thee. Psalms 21:11.
3. To regard; to fix the mind on; to attend; to take care of.
Having no children, she did with singular care and tenderness intend the education of Phillip.
[This use of the word is now obsolete. We now use tend and superintend or regard.]
4. To enforce; to make intense.