Definition of: lend

(lend) v. lent, lend·ing v.t.
1. To grant the temporary use of without further compensation than the understanding that the thing or its equivalent will be returned.
2. To grant the temporary use of, as money, for a compensation.
3. To impart; furnish: The thought lends beauty to the poem.
4. To accommodate (oneself or itself): The statement lends itself to interpretation.
—v.i.
5. To make a loan or loans.
—to lend a hand To give assistance.
—to lend an ear To hearken. [OE lænan <læn a loan. Akin to LOAN.]
—lend′er noun