n. [ OE. & AS. ende; akin to OS. endi, D. einde, eind, OHG. enti, G. ende, Icel. endir, endi, Sw. ände, Dan. ende, Goth. andeis, Skr. anta. √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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Eccl. vii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence. [ 1913 Webster ]

My guilt be on my head, and there an end. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

O that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Confound your hidden falsehood, and award
Either of you to be the other's end. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall see an end of him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Losing her, the end of living lose. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Carpet Manuf.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

On the seventh day God ended his work. Gen. ii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To destroy; to put to death. “This sword hath ended him.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To end up, to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ . [ Gr. 'e`ndon within, fr. &unr_; in. See In. ] A combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be ended; terminable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Complete termination. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the primary or only purpose or goal; as, winning office is the be-all and end-all of a politician's life. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Endamaged p. pr. & vb. n. Endamaging ] [ Pref. en- + damage: cf. F. endommager. ] To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. endommagement. ] Damage; injury; harm. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To damnify; to injure. [ R. ] Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]