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End

n.
  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.
  2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence.
  3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.
  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.
  5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.
  6. (Carpet Manuf.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
    7. An end
    1. On end; upright; erect; endways.
    2. To the end; continuously.
    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.
    On end ,
    upright; erect.
    To the end ,
    in order.
    To make both ends meet ,
    to live within one's income.
    To put an end to ,
    to destroy.

v. t.
  1. To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.
  2. To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.
  3. To destroy; to put to death.
    4. To end up ,
    to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead.

v. i.
  1. 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.

  1. A combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean.