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| On end | End \End\ ([e^]nd), n. [OE. & AS. ende; akin to OS. endi, D. einde, eind, OHG. enti, G. ende, Icel. endir, endi, Sw. ["a]nde, Dan. ende, Goth. andeis, Skr. anta. [root]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. [1913 Webster] Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. --Eccl. vii. 8. [1913 Webster] 2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence. [1913 Webster] My guilt be on my head, and there an end. --Shak. [1913 Webster] O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. [1913 Webster] Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I shall see an end of him. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Losing her, the end of living lose. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 6. (Carpet Manuf.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] |
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