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.)
Defn: 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.
END
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.