And flaming ministers to watch and tend
Their earthly charge. Milton.

There 's not a sparrow or a wren,
There 's not a blade of autumn grain,
Which the four seasons do not tend
And tides of life and increase lend. Emerson.

Being to descend
A ladder much in height, I did not tend
My way well down. Chapman.

To tend a vessel (Naut.), to manage an anchored vessel when the tide turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle the cable.

Was he not companion with the riotous knights
That tend upon my father? Shak.

Two gentlemen tending towards that sight. Sir H. Wotton.

Thus will this latter, as the former world,
Still tend from bad to worse. Milton.

The clouds above me to the white Alps tend. Byron.

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. Prov. xxi. 5.

The laws of our religion tend to the universal happiness of mankind. Tillotson.