3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.

Propeller wheel,the screw, usually having two or more blades, used in

propelling a vessel.

Pro*pend" (?), v. i. [L. propendere, propensum; pro forward, forth +

pendere to hang. See Pendent.] To lean toward a thing; to be favorably

inclined or disposed; to incline; to tend. [R.] Shak.

We shall propend to it, as a stone falleth down.

Barrow.

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