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