End , v. i. To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter
ends.
End (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ended; p. pr. & vb. n. Ending.]
1. To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech. "I shall end this strife." Shak.
On the seventh day God ended his work.
Gen. ii.
2. 2. To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.
3. To destroy; to put to death. "This sword hath ended him." Shak.
To end up, to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead.
End (&ebreve;nd), n.
[OE. & AS. ende; akin to OS. endi, D. einde, eind, OHG. enti, G. ende, Icel. endir, endi, Sw.
ände, Dan. ende, Goth. andeis, Skr. anta. √208. Cf. Ante-, Anti-, Answer.]
1. The extreme or last point
or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the
extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to
pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part.
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.
Eccl. vii. 8.
2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive
event; consequence.
My guilt be on my head, and there an
end.
Shak.
O that a man might know
The end of this
day's business ere it come!
Shak. 3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.
Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
Pope. Confound your hidden falsehood, and award
Either of you
to be the other's end.
Shak. I shall see an end of
him.
Shak.
4. The object aimed at in any effort
considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends.
Losing her, the end of living lose.
Dryden. When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.
Coleridge. 5. That
which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.
I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends stolen out of
holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Shak. 6. (Carpet
Manuf.) One of the yarns of the
worsted warp in a Brussels
carpet.
An end. (a) On end; upright; erect; endways.
Spenser (b) To the end; continuously. [Obs.] Richardson. --
End bulb (Anat.),
one of the bulblike bodies in which some sensory nerve fibers end in certain parts of the skin and
mucous membranes; -- also
called end corpuscles. -- End fly, a bobfly. -- End for end, one end for the other; in reversed order. -- End man, the last man
in a row; one of the two men at the extremities of a line of
minstrels. -- End on
(Naut.), bow foremost. -- End organ (Anat.), the
structure in which a nerve
fiber ends, either
peripherally or centrally. -- End plate (Anat.), one
of the flat
expansions in which motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers. -- End
play (Mach.), movement endwise, or room for such
movement. -- End stone (Horol.), one
of the two
plates of a jewel in a timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play. -- Ends of the earth, the remotest
regions of the earth. -- In the end, finally. Shak. -- On end, upright; erect. -- To the end,
in order. Bacon. -- To make both ends meet, to live within one's income. Fuller. --
To put an
end to, to destroy.
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