Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TEND', v.t. [L. intendo; in and tendo, to stretch or strain, from tenor, Gr. τεινω, to stretch.]

1. To stretch; to strain; to extend; to distend. By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Hale. [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. Ps. xxi.
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 Philip. Bacon. [This use of the word is now obsolete. We now use tend and superintend or regard.]
4. To enforce; to make intense. Brown.