Part 3756

<blockquote>Better is the <b>end</b> of a thing than the beginning thereof. <i>Eccl. vii. 8.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence.</def>

<blockquote>My guilt be on my head, and there an <b>end</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>O that a man might know The <b>end</b> of this day's business ere it come! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.</def>

<blockquote>Unblamed through life, lamented in thy <b>end</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's <b>end</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I shall see an <b>end</b> of him. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; <as>as, to labor for private or public <ex>ends</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>Losing her, the <b>end</b> of living lose. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>When every man is his own <b>end</b>, all things will come to a bad end. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; <as>as, odds and <ex>ends</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>I clothe my naked villainy With old odd <b>ends</b> stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Carpet Manuf.)</fld> <def>One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.</def>

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<cs><col>An end</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>On end; upright; erect; endways. <i>Spenser</i></cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To the end; continuously. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Richardson</i>.</cd> -- <col>End bulb</col> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>one of the bulblike bodies in which some sensory nerve fibers end in certain parts of the skin and mucous membranes; -- also called <i>end corpuscles<i>.</cd> -- <col>End fly</col>, <cd>a bobfly.</cd> -- <col>End for end</col>, <cd>one end for the other; in reversed order.</cd> -- <col>End man</col>, <cd>the last man in a row; one of the two men at the extremities of a line of minstrels.</cd> -- <col>End on</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>bow foremost.</cd> -- <col>End organ</col> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>the structure in which a nerve fiber ends, either peripherally or centrally.</cd> -- <col>End plate</col> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>one of the flat expansions in which motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.</cd> -- <col>End play</col> <fld>(Mach.)</fld>, <cd>movement endwise, or room for such movement.</cd> -- <col>End stone</col> <fld>(Horol.)</fld>, <cd>one of the two plates of a jewel in a timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play.</cd> -- <col>Ends of the earth</col>, <cd>the remotest regions of the earth.</cd> -- <col>In the end</col>, <cd>finally. <i>Shak</i>.</cd> -- <col>On end</col>, <cd>upright; erect.</cd> -- <col>To the end</col>, <cd>in order. <i>Bacon</i>.</cd> -- <col>To make both ends meet</col>, <cd>to live within one's income. <i>Fuller</i>.</cd> -- <col>To put an end to</col>, <cd>to destroy.</cd></cs>

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<hw>End</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Ended</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Ending</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; <as>as, to <ex>end</ex> a speech</as>.</def> "I shall <i>end</i> this strife."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>On the seventh day God <b>ended</b> his work. <i>Gen. ii. 2.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To form or be at the end of; <as>as, the letter <ex>k ends</ex> the word <ex>back</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To destroy; to put to death.</def> "This sword hath <i>ended</i> him."

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><col>To end up</col>, <cd>to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, <i>to end up<i> a hogshead.</cd></cs>

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<hw>End</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; <as>as, a voyage <ex>ends</ex>; life <ex>ends</ex>; winter <ex>ends</ex>.</as></def>

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