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Entry 10 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

End

/(ĕnd)/ · IPA /ɛnd/
01 n. The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in g…
  1. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 6.
    One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.(Carpet Manuf.)
Phrases & compounds
An end — On end; upright; erect; endways.
End bulb — 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 — bow foremost.
End organ — the structure in which a nerve fiber ends, either peripherally or centrally.
End plate — one of the flat expansions in which motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.
End play — movement endwise, or room for such movement.
End stone — 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.
On end — upright; erect.
To the end — in order.
To make both ends meet — to live within one's income.
To put an end to — to destroy.
02 v. t. To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.
imp. & p. p. Ended; p. pr. & vb. n. Ending
  1. 1.
    To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.
    “On the seventh day God ended his work.” — Gen. ii. 2.
  2. 2.
    To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.
  3. 3.
    To destroy; to put to death.
Phrases & compounds
To end up — to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead.
03 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.
  1. 1.
    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.