Defn: Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an
encysted tumor.
The encysted venom, or poison bag, beneath the adder's fang.
Coleridge.
ENCYSTMENT
En*cyst"ment, n.
1. (Biol.)
Defn: A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.
Note: The animal (a) first contracts its body to a globular mass (b) and then secretes a transparent cyst (c), after which the mass divides into two or more parts (as in d e), each of which attains freedom by the bursting of the cyst, and becomes an individual animal.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina.
END
End, n. Etym: [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. 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 Ant: 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.