Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Trend \Trend\, v. t. [Cf. G. & OD. trennen to separate.]
   To cleanse, as wool. [Prov. Eng.]

Trend \Trend\, n.
   Clean wool. [Prov. Eng.]

Trend \Trend\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trended}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Trending}.] [OE. trenden to roll or turn about; akin to
   OFries. trind, trund, round, Dan. & Sw. trind, AS. trendel a
   circle, ring, and E. trendle, trundle.]
   To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend;
   as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

Trend \Trend\, v. t.
   To cause to turn; to bend. [R.]

         Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends Her silver
         stream.                                  --W. Browne.

Trend \Trend\, n.
   Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general
   direction; as, the trend of a coast.

   {Trend of an anchor}. (Naut.)
   (a) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same
       distance on the shank from the throat that the arm
       measures from the throat to the bill. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
   (b) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the
       direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at
       anchor.

Source : WordNet®

trend
     v : turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the
         left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the
         right" [syn: {swerve}, {sheer}, {curve}, {veer}, {slue},
         {slew}, {cut}]

trend
     n 1: a general direction in which something tends to move; "the
          shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the
          stock market" [syn: {tendency}]
     2: general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern
        course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" [syn: {course}]
     3: a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly
        liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad
        movement of the electorate to the right" [syn: {drift}, {movement}]
     4: the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest
        vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a
        style of their own" [syn: {vogue}, {style}]