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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: End \End\, n. [OE. & AS ende; akin to OS endi, D. einde, eind, OHG. enti, G. ende, Icel. endir, endi, Sw ["a]nde, Dan. ende, Goth. andeis, Skr. anta. ????. 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 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. 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.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: End \End\, v. i. 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Endo- \En"do-\, End- \End-\ [Gr. 'e`ndon within, fr ? in See {In}.] A combining form signifying within; as endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: end n 1: either extremity of something that has length: "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they had reached the end of the road" 2: the point in time at which something ends "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period" [syn: {ending}] [ant: {beginning}, {middle}] 3: the concluding part of an event or occurrence: "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie" [syn: {last}] 4: the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it "the ends justify the means" [syn: {goal}] 5: a final part or section: "we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus"; "Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end" [ant: {beginning}, {middle}] 6: a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" [syn: {destruction}, {death}] 7: the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object: "one end of the box was marked `This side up'" 8: (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass" 9: a boundary marking the extremities of something: "the end of town" 10: one of two places from which people are communicating to each other "the phone rang at the other end" or "both ends wrote at the same time" 11: the part you are expected to play; "he held up his end" 12: the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..." [syn: {conclusion}, {close}, {closing}, {ending}] 13: a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold [syn: {remainder}, {remnant}, {scrap}, {oddment}] 14: a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end" v 1: have an end in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense: "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: {finish}, {terminate}, {cease}] [ant: {begin}] 2: bring to an end "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime" [syn: {terminate}] [ant: {begin}] 3: be the end of be the last of concluding part of "This sad scene ended the movie" 4: put an end to "The terrible news destroyed our hopes that he had survived" 5: bring to a conclusion or cause to come to an end "We terminated our relation with the company"; "It is unclear whether the bombing of Hiroshima ended the war"; "Cease doing what you are doing!" [syn: {terminate}, {cease}] [ant: {begin}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: End in Heb. 13:7, is the rendering of the unusual Greek word _ekbasin_, meaning "outcome", i.e., death. It occurs only elsewhere in 1 Cor. 10:13, where it is rendered "escape." From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: END n. The position farthest removed on either hand from the Interlocutor. The man was perishing apace Who played the tambourine; The seal of death was on his face -- 'Twas pallid, for 'twas clean. "This is the end," the sick man said In faint and failing tones. A moment later he was dead, And Tambourine was Bones. Tinley Roquot
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