Chapter Encroachment to Endictment of E by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Endable
(End"a*ble) a. That may be ended; terminable.

End-all
(End"-all`) n. Complete termination. [R.]

That but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here.

Shak.