endn.
/ɛnd/, U.S. /ɛnd/ I. With reference to space.† 2.
1. † c. A boundary. In plural territorial boundaries [? after Latin fines] . Obsolete.
a. The extremity or outermost part (in any direction) of a portion of space, or of anything extended in space; utmost limit. Obsolete in general sense; retained in phrase, the end(s) of the earth.
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the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun]
endc825
headOE
finea1300
nolla1387
extremityc1400
hinder end?1523
extreme1570
termininea1593
exit1615
outmost1634
terminus1704
knobhead1793
terminal1865
c825 Vesp. Psalter Ps. xviii. [xix.] 4 In alle eorðan uteo de swoeg heara and in endas ymbhwyrftes eorðan word heara.
c1000 Ags. Ps. xviii. [xix]. 4 Ofer ealle eorðan endas [færð] heora word.
c1305 St. Kenelm 150 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 51 Forto pleyen him bi þe wodes ende.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 7 Wt oute þe cite townes ende.
a1400–50 Alexander 173 All þe erth of Egipt fra end vnto othere Bees conquirid.
1599 George a Greene sig. E4 But darest thou walke to the townes end with me?
1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 66 Christ shall..reign from the River to the end of the land.
1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 17 Earth's distant Ends our Glory shall behold.
1891 N.E.D. at End Mod. I would go with him to the world's end.
b. A limit of magnitude or multitude.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > limit or threshold
endc825
one's stint1602
mark1893
threshold1920
c825 Vesp. Psalter Ps. cxliv. [cxlv.] 3 Micel dryhten and hergendlic swiðe and micelnisse his nis ende.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 49 Many a man knowes no end of his goods. View more context for this quotation
1865 Mill in Evening Star 10 July There was no end to the advantages.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun]
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frontier1413
enda1425
limit1439
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mete?1473
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bounder1505
pale?a1525
butrelle1546
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limesa1552
divisec1575
meta1587
line1595
marginc1595
closure1597
Rubicon1613
bournea1616
boundary1626
boundure1634
verge1660
terminary1670
meta1838
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. x. 13 Y haue take awei the endis of peplis.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 72/2 The Ryuer of the endes of the phylisteis.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xvii. 26 And the endes of their in habitacion.
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 2 A line is the ende and terme of a superficies.
d. the end. figurative and colloquial.
(a) Of persons and things, a term to express the extreme in disparagement; the ‘limit’ (cf. limit n.): the ‘last straw’.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [phrase] > cause of final or ultimate suffering
the end1938
1929 P. G. Wodehouse Mr. Mulliner Speaking ii. 55 ‘This,’ he said in a shaking voice, ‘is the end. From this moment I go off the stuff.’]
1938 N. Marsh Death in White Tie iii. 43 The sort of people who go there are just simply The End..the most unspeakable curiosities.
1944 ‘C. Brahms’ & ‘S. J. Simon’ Titania has Mother v. 41 But the damage had been done... It was The End.
1953 E. Taylor Sleeping Beauty x. 175 You simply are the end.
1959 G. Freeman Jack would be Gentleman v. 85 Donald, you really are the absolute end.
(b) U.S. slang (esp. Jazz slang). A term of extreme approbation: the best, the ultimate (ultimate adj. 1). Also attributive.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [adjective]
highestOE
bestOE
firstlOE
greatest?c1225
of the besta1350
premiera1500
paramount1530
supremec1550
supreme1571
primer1589
top1647
nulli secundus1742
bestest1751
first class1819
beatemest1831
par excellence1839
première1844
first rate1853
beatenest1860
blue ribbon1860
optimum1885
optimal1890
class A1906
all-star1908
grade A1911
five-star1931
mostest1936
tip-topmost1937
the end1950
the most1953
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [noun] > best thing or person
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bestOE
greatest?c1225
pridec1330
crestc1400
primrosea1450
outrepass1477
A per sea1500
primrose peerless1523
prisec1540
prime1579
surquidry1607
excellency1611
nonsuchc1613
crown jewel1646
top1665
patriarch1700
pièce de résistance1793
number one1825
business1868
resistance piece1870
star1882
mostest1889
koh-i-noor1892
best-ever1905
flagship1933
the end1950
endsville1957
Big Mac1969
mack daddy1993
1950 Neurotica Autumn 45 Senor this shit [sc. narcotic] is the end!
1954 Time 8 Nov. 70 A term of high approbation in the swing era was ‘out of this world’, in the bop era it was ‘gone’, and today it is ‘the greatest’ or ‘the end’.
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road ii. iv. 127 That Rollo Greb is the greatest... Man, he's the end!
1960 W. Morris in D. Cerulli et al. Jazz Word 123 One of my paintings is named requiem for bird, a tribute for the end alto.
1963 Nugget Feb. 46 I was blowing some jazz in the student lounge on this end Steinway.
a. A ‘quarter’, division, region (of the world, of a country or town). Obsolete (but cf. east end n., west end n., where this sense blends with 3).
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > [noun]
endc893
earthOE
coastc1315
plagea1382
provincea1382
regiona1382
countrya1387
partya1387
climatea1398
partc1400
nookc1450
corner1535
subregion1559
parcel1582
quart1590
climature1604
latitudea1640
area1671
district1712
zone1829
natural region1888
sector1943
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun]
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shirec893
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sidec1325
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provincea1382
partc1400
landmark1550
tract1553
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neighbourhood1652
district1712
section1785
circumscription1831
location1833
block1840
strip1873
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. ii. i Þas feower heafodricu sindon on feower endum þyses middangeardes.
a1225 St. Marher. (1862) 16 Ant al þe ende þæt tu ant heo habbeð in ierðet.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 377 Al þat aȝt was in Engelond he let somony in ech ende To Salesbury.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 32 Alle þe north ende was in his kepyng.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lii. l. 540 Ȝoure fadir sendeth Into Every Ende Aftyr his knyhtes.
b. An outlying part of a village or small country town, the end of an estate, or an outlying property, usually preceded by a descriptive name. (For place-names and field-names in -end see A. H. Smith Eng. Place-Name Elements (1956) at ende1.)
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1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. viii. 196 Mr Goffe, of Rabbit's End, had never had it explained to him that..land must inevitably be given up when it would not yield a profit.
1906 Bungalow Dec. 8/2 It is the typical ‘end’ so beloved of the novelist, the disreputable quarter which the parsimonious squire neglects.
1910 E. M. Forster (title) Howards End.
1925 Victoria Hist. County Bucks. III. 465/1 The soil [at Winslow] is of Oxford clay, which has been worked in a pit at Tinker's End.
1954 M. Beresford Lost Villages Eng. x. 339 Bedfordshire... The form of settlement..gives us the characteristic ‘Ends’. Here, farms are scattered.
3. † b. The point of a spear. Obsolete.
a. One of the two extremities of a line, or of the ‘length’ or greatest dimension of any object; that part of anything that includes the extremity of its length. from end to end: from one extremity to the other; throughout the length.
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the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > of a line or of a length of something
enda1250
head1791
the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > from one end to the other [phrase]
from end to end1632
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > in longitudinal extent [phrase] > from end to end
from out to out1620
from end to end1632
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 195 Ðe wel bloweð. went þene neruwure ende of þe horne to his owune muðe.
c1394 J. Malverne Contn. Higden (Rolls) IX. App. 3 Perrexitque ad locum qui Anglice vocatur ‘Mile ende.’
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 23201 Þe pitte of helle pin It es sa dep..Þat end ne bes þar neuir apon.
1420 in Surtees Misc. (1890) 17 Als wele at the ta nende als at the other.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxv. 75 Oberon satte at the tables ende.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8795 Euer folowand the fell to þe fyngur endys.
1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. xiv In the eande of the other line.
1602 Returne fr. Parnassus (Arb.) ii. vi. 32 Your Hobby will meete you at the lanes end.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. 22 I haue trod foure seuerall times from end to end of it [Italy].
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 79/1 The Billberry, or Windberry, is round at the end.
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 159 The Air Ground-pipe, laid the whole length of the Green-house..and reaching from end to end.
1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. An iron hook made fast to the end of a rope.
1758 T. Warton Idler 2 Dec. 273 Mutton chops, off the worst end.
1760 J. Wesley Jrnl. 30 June (1827) III. 9 I was quickly wet to my toe's end.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 39 The end of his own nose.
1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 166 On the floor of the cage or at the ends of a rod passing through its upper bar.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > head or point
spear-headc1400
spitc1450
spear-pointa1500
endc1540
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 9432 He bare hym þurgh the brest with a bright end.
c. (see Land's end n.)
d. ? transferred. In the game of Bowls: The portion of a game which is played from one ‘end’ of the green to the other (see quot. 1876). Formerly also a definite portion of a game in Billiards and some other sports.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun] > game or part of game
rubber1599
end1688
roll-off1886
head1893
point1902
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 263/1 Five Ends make a Game by Day light, and three by Candle light.
1747 Scheme Equip. Men of War 37 Playing an End or two at that innocent..Game, called Push Pin.
1876 H. F. Wilkinson Bowls in Encycl. Brit. IV. 181 The bowling generally takes place alternately from the two ‘ends’ of the green. A ‘void end’ is when neither side can score a cast.
e. Archery. (a) The place at which a mark is set up. (b) The number of arrows shot from one end of a range.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > contest > specific number of arrows to be shot
end1801
round1856
1801 T. Roberts Eng. Bowman 288 End, the place where a mark is fixed.
1836 in A. E. Hargrove Archery (1845) 89 Any member who shall draw an arrow before the end has been determined by the Judges, shall forfeit his right to count for such arrow.
1879 M. Thompson & W. H. Thompson Archery x. 52 By the rules of the York Round three arrows to each archer constitute an end.
1887 W. Butt Ford's Theory & Pract. Archery (rev. ed.) 289 On July 5, 1877, he made 3 golds in one end at 100 yards.
f. Of a sports pitch or court; also, the half occupied by a team or individual player. to change ends: to play in the opposite direction to that in which the team or individual had previously played; so change of ends; to choose ends: to indicate the direction in which one prefers to play; so choice of ends.
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1851 W. Bolland Cricket Notes v. 87 The safest plan is to stipulate..that the disputed man shall not be put on at either end—as a doubtful bowler should never be permitted.
1865 J. Pycroft Cricketana xiii. 235 He used at Lord's to bowl from the Pavilion end in order that he might have the slope against him.
1867 G. H. Selkirk Guide to Cricket Ground iv. 59 The finest bowler might change ends every over, and bowl continuously.
1881 Two Codes Football (ed. 3) 28 Ends shall only be changed at half-time.
1890 C. G. Heathcote Lawn Tennis in J. M. Heathcote et al. Tennis (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 253 The winner of the toss should choose the best end, taking note in doing so not only of the position of the sun at the moment, but of what it will be in the course of the match.
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xviii. 313 The slogger smote a vigorous ball from the factory end.
1960 J. R. Witty in A. H. Fabian & G. Green Assoc. Football I. ii. iii. 167 Choice of ends has always been decided by a toss of the coin.
1963 R. B. Stratford Netball ix. 70 Unless the weather conditions make the choice of ends desirable, it is better [for the captain who wins the toss] to choose the centre pass.
1970 Times 22 Oct. 13/4 (Soccer) Five minutes after the change of ends came the body blow.
g. In American and Canadian football, one stationed at the end of a line or team of players; a wing; the position occupied by such a player.
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1892 Outing Dec. 50/1 Long gains at the tackles, ends, and around the ends, were common.
1899 A. H. Quinn Pennsylvania Stories 22 The ends and the backs came together as though drawn by a magnet and the pyramid toppled and fell.
1944 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune 24 Sept. 2/1 The Wizards team is well spiked with verterans this year having a veteran backfield, two ends and a letterman tackle.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 29/1 Of their 10 selections, seven were offensive ends or flankers.
h. the end of the road (transferred and figurative).
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the very end
last end?c1225
the farc1540
the far endc1540
faga1627
the last word1842
the end of the road1954
endsville1962
1924 Dillon & Lauder End of Road 4 Keep right on to the end of the road. Keep right on to the end.
1954 M. Procter Hell is City iii. vi. 108 It'll be the end of the road for him. He won't care what he does.
1959 ‘A. Fraser’ High Tension x. 99 It isn't any good pretending. We've come to the end of the road.
1968 Guardian 8 Oct. 1/2 The end of the road for Mr. Dubcek's Czechoslovakia may not have been reached after all.
4. The surface which bounds an object at either of its two extremities; the ‘head’ of a cask.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [noun] > surface at either extremity
end1526
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. ci The hopes kepeth faste the bordes of the vessell..and holdeth in the endes yt the start nat.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 224 Draw lines across each end of the stone.
1891 N.E.D. at End Mod. The ends of the cask were stove in. The ends of the box are of hard wood.
5.
a. A piece broken, cut off, or left; a fragment, remnant. Cf. candle-end n. Of cloth: A half-length, or half-piece. Also in odds and ends n. at odds n. 7a.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remaining fragment
stobc1420
end1481
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fragment1531
stuba1533
remainder?1570
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remnant1597
butt1612
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nuba1834
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snar1892
1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1841) 141 My lord sent to Stoke be the carter ij.c. xxiiij. lb. yren, conteyning xj. endes.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F6 Scraps or shreds or short ends of lace.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Rr2 A Brokers Shoppe; that hath ends of euerie thing. View more context for this quotation
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 12 Give him leave to sell all his rags, and odde-ends.
1704 in London Gaz. No. 3986/4 Lost..5 yards and a half of superfine..Black, 12 yards and a half of refine Black..being both Last Ends.
1712 E. Hatton Merchants Mag. 22 An End or Half Cloth, or a Long or Whole Cloth.
1713 A. Pope Narr. Robert Norris 11 On his Table were some Ends of Verse and of Candles.
1887 H. R. Haggard Jess xxxii. 308 The bit of candle..was..burnt out, so..he produced a box full of ‘ends.’
b. figurative. Obsolete except in odds and ends.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 271 Ere you flowt old ends any further, examine your conscience. View more context for this quotation
1607 B. Jonson Volpone Prol. sig. A4v Nor hales hee in a Gull, old ends reciting, To stop gappes in his loose writing. View more context for this quotation
1607 R. Wilkinson Merchant Royall 26 Euerie Ladie..if her husband haue bribed out but an end of an office, yet she reuels and playes Rex.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. (ed. 3) sig. A3 To improve these short ends of time, which are stolne from his more important avocations.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 251 They call..language of a finer Dresse, Ends of Playes.
c. A part, proportion; only with adjectives of quantity, as in †micel ende (Old English) a great part; †none end, no portion; a good (great) end (dialect), a large proportion (of). Cf. most end at most adj. 3a, most an end adv.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun]
deala800
doleOE
endOE
lotlOE
partyc1300
parta1325
specec1330
portiona1387
piecec1400
proportion1443
parcellingc1449
faction1577
piecemeal1603
proportional1856
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1052 Harold..ofsloh mycelne ende þes folces.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 14478 Þe iewes..souȝten him to slone And moost ende for þat resoun Þat he vp reised lazaroun.
?c1400–40 How Merchande dyd Wyfe Betray 106 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 201 To speke wyth none ende of my kynne.
1623 W. Lisle Ælfric's Saxon Treat. Jeremias..was oft in bands and cast into prison..and bore most an end the peoples sinnes.
1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine 162 The credit of the relator, which most an end depends upon another's credit.
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 122 Tipplers most an end are roaring Boys.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale It cost me a girt end of a pound.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Most on End..used adverbially; continually, unremittingly.
1891 N.E.D. at End Mod. Derbysh., It cost me a good end of ten pounds. I have been waiting a good end of an hour.
d. A share or portion; a part or side. Originally U.S.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun]
dealc825
lotOE
dolea1225
partc1300
portion?1316
sort1382
parcelc1400
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partagec1450
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whack1785
divvy1872
end1903
bite1925
1903 A. H. Lewis Boss xiv. 181 That's always th' Tammany end; forty per cent.
1907 in L. E. Asher & E. Heal Send No Money (1942) 115 After the genial and affable derelicts in the money changing end received the money..no stove has arrived.
1926 J. Black You can't Win ix. 105 Didn't him and Smiler bring it [sc. $200] up here for my end of that chippy gambling house's bankroll?
1928 Publishers' Weekly 30 June 2598 To talk to such a person about the editorial end of a publishing business means little or nothing.
1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway v. 126 Honey would have to come back to this country to tell us his end of it.
1962 B. Knox Little Drops of Blood ii. 39 How about your end of it?
6. In various technical uses.
a. Coal-mining. The furthest part of a gallery or working. end of coal (see quot. 1881). Also on the end (see quots.).
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1865 Morning Star 7 Jan. The men are of course usually at work in the ‘ends’.
1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining xii. 140 A far better proportion of round coal will be obtained by working on the end, i.e., in the direction of such cleat.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 238 This direction is sometimes called the end of the coal.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 130 End of coal, the direction or section at right-angles to the face; sometimes called the butt.
1892 H. W. Hughes Text-bk. Coal-mining vii. 158 If the face is parallel to the cleat, the coal is said to be ‘on the end’.
b. Nautical. cable's end, or simply end: the last length of a cable. rope's end: a short length of rope bound at the ends with thread, used as an instrument of punishment. bitter end (see bitter n.2).
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1663 S. Pepys Diary 23 June (1971) IV. 193 I beat him and then went up to fetch my ropes end.
1801 Sir H. Parker Let. 6 Apr. in Duncan Nelson (1806) 140 They [ships] were riding with two cables end.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Rope's end, the termination of a fall, and should be pointed or whipped. Formerly much used for illegal punishment.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 145 Have plenty of end in the bows ready to make fast.
c. a shoemaker's end: a length of thread armed or pointed with a bristle; = wax-end n. at wax n.1 Compounds 2. to pack up one's ends and awls (Scottish): i.e. all one's effects.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > materials > thread
lingelc1440
a shoemaker's end1598
taching end1611
rosin-enda1826
wax-end1825
waxed-end1914
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Lesina A shooe-makers ende or awle.
1656 H. More Antidote Atheism (1712) ii. xi. 74 Two strings like two shoe-makers ends come from the hinder parts of the male.
1708 J. Swift Elegy on Mr Patrige (single sheet) Ariadne kindly Lends Her Braided Hair to make thee Ends.
1737 W. Meston Old Mother Grim's Tales v. 23 Laden with Tackel of his Stall, Last, Ends and Hammer, Strap and Awl.
1798 J. Wolcot Tales of Hoy in Wks. (1812) IV. 389 Crispin too forgets his End and Awl.
1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize I. xxv. 271 They arrived at Edinburgh, and constrained the Queen Regent..to pack up her ends and awls.
d. Spinning and Weaving. (a) card-end: a sliver or carding. (b) A worsted yarn in a Brussels carpet.
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1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 978 For spinning coarse numbers..six card-ends are usually converted into one riband.
e. (See quot.)
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1885 Spons' Mechanics' Own Bk. 169 ‘Ends’ are pieces of plank, deal, or batten less than 8 ft. long.
f. end of steel n. (formerly also end of the steel) Canadian the limit to which tracks have been laid during the construction of a railway; a railway terminus; so end-of-steel town, a town at a railway terminus.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > terminus for train
terminus1825
terminal1844
end of steel1909
1884 Prince Albert Times (Sask.) 4 July 3/1 A number of leading citizens of Calgary waited on Inspector Steele..on the eve of his departure to End of Track.]
1909 A. D. Cameron New North ii. 21 Edmonton is the end of steel. Three lines converge here.
1912 H. Footner New Rivers of North 276 We came to the end of the steel, but there was no construction work going on.
1912 J. B. Bickersteth Let. 3 Nov. in Land of Open Doors (1914) x. 199 An end-of-steel town is a wicked place.
1933 Meccano Mag. Mar. 195/1 Greatly reduced the time required for the journey from the ‘end of steel’, as the railway terminus is called in Canada.
1933 G. N. V. Thompson & J. H. Edgar Canad. Railway Devel. 247 An engine drawing a train of ballast trucks..steamed to the end of steel.
1962 R. Slobodin Band Organiz. Kutchin 12 The railroad terminus—the ‘end of steel’—is at Waterways, Alberta.
g. big end: see big end n. at big adj. and adv. Compounds 2.
II. With reference to time or serial order.† 11. A termination of doubt or debate; a resolution, device, expedient; an agreement, settlement. Obsolete.† 12. The completion of an action; the accomplishment of a purpose: chiefly in phrases, to have an end, to make an end, to take an end, to bring to an end, to be at (an) end. Also, the acme, utmost reach. Obsolete.
7.
a. The limit of duration, or close, of a period of time; the termination, conclusion, of an action, process, continuous state, or course of events; the terminal point of a series; the conclusion of a discourse, book, chapter, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun]
endc1000
endingc1000
finea1300
conclusion1382
ooc1384
close1399
finance1449
terminationc1500
last?1520
winding up1560
wind-up1573
wind-up-all1573
conclusure1578
clause1581
upshot1582
desinence1598
omega1599
Godspeed1606
finis1682
finale1786
finish1790
tie-up1829
Z1877
curtains1912
taps1917
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > end or completion
endc1000
finishmentc1400
consummation?a1475
final1582
ultimity1613
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > a limit, end, or term
endc1000
pointc1330
terma1398
datec1400
limec1420
period1554
full stopa1586
stopa1586
coda1836
mop1945
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > coming or bringing to an end > coming to an end or expiry
endc1000
ush1463
outrunning1483
extermination1490
ish1502
expirement1526
concluding1530
expiration1562
closing1598
terminating1598
cessure1607
outpassing1609
expire1612
expiring1612
expiry1807
cesser1809
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > [noun] > the placing of one thing after another > last place in a series
bottom1732
end1803
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) x. 22 Soðlice se þurhwunað oð ende, se byð hal.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4357 Forr seffne daȝhess brinngenn aȝȝ Þe wuke till hiss ende.
c1230 Hali Meid. 17 Blisse þat cumeð..withuten ani ende.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 26595 If þou þis bok will se till end.
1340 Ayenb. 262 Þis boc is ycome to þe ende.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4236 Es noght his murning mai amend I wen bifor his liues ende.
a1400–50 Alexander 880 Philip..lofes hire [sc. Olympias] lely to his lyfes ende.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 470 Þe clerk went at all þis werld had bene at a nend.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Cor. xv. C Then the ende, whan he shal delyuer vp the kyngdome vnto God the father [whā (whan) in text].
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 22 Robert had heard this message vnto the ende.
1709 Tatler No. 24 This Felicity attending him to his Life's End.
1803 R. Anderson et al. Calep Crosby in Ballads in Cumberland Dial. Frae week en to week en.
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. x. 231 The passage of the Jordan was not the end, but the beginning of a long and troubled conflict.
1876 G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay I. i. 13 He worked unceasingly.. from year's end to year's end.
b. The latter or concluding part (of a period, action, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part
eveningOE
enda1200
eventide?c1225
finea1350
tail1377
latter (last) enda1382
issue1484
latter day?1498
waning1561
last days1572
heel1584
sunsetting1593
fall1596
lag-end1598
posterior1598
sunset1599
dotage1606
exit1615
stern1623
waning timea1639
last1683
heel piecea1764
shank1828
tail-end1845
tailpiece1869
tag1882
teatime1913
end-point1921
a1200 Moral Ode in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 26 Ac ȝif þe ende is euel, al it is uuel.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. xx. 47 In the ende of the worlde the deuyll shall be..moche the more feruent to woodnesse.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 80 The Ewes..In end of Autume turned to the Rammes. View more context for this quotation
1695 W. J. tr. R. Le Bossu Treat. Epick Poem 79 The..Designs..for doing an Action are the Beginning..;..the Difficulties that are met with..are the Middle..; and..the Unraveling and Resolution of these Difficulties are the End of the Action.
1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia 170 Kara George..towards the end of the summer of 1806, approached the eastern frontier.
c. in attributive uses of phrases, as end-account, end-August, end-year (also followed by a specified year-date); end-of-December, end-of-season, end-of-term (also end-of-termy adj.), end-of-the-century, end-of-the-year. end-of-day adj. (also end-of-the-day) designating glassware made by combining different-coloured glass (allegedly oddments left over at the end of the day); cf. whimsy n. 7b.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > types of glass-work or glassware
Pomona1886
Nailsea1910
Steuben1920
Orrefors1928
end-of-day1937
1891 Literary World 20 Nov. 422/3 Our end-of-the-century civilisation.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 12 June 7/2 The end-of-December account.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 9/1 The final details of the end-August settlement.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 22 Sept. 9/1 Business in Kaffirs for the End-September settlement.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 10/1 The end-of-the-year requirements are likely to be satisfied.
1911 H. S. Walpole Mr. Perrin & Mr. Traill iii. 42 The end-of-termy feelings.
1923 Manch. Guardian Weekly 10 Aug. 106/1 Smith Minor has been cruelly flogged by an avaricious head master who had discovered that his end-of-term rose-bowl was only electro plate instead of the solid silver which he had stipulated in his letter to the lad's parents.
1928 Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 8/6 The falling off in the average shown in latest developments, accentuated by end-account sales.
1937 Antiques Feb. 80/1 For years past, many collectors have found much to admire in what they called End of the Day glass.
1938 New Statesman 8 Jan. 39/1 The end-year issue of The Bookseller.
1947 W. Lewis Let. 21 Dec. (1963) 423 I was sorry to hear of your end-of-the-year feeling of nervous exhaustion.
1948 Glass Club Bull. Mar. 5/1 ‘End of the day’ is a fanciful term given in support of the story that at the end of the working day the odds and ends..were..remelted..and..appeared as beautiful pieces of purple and white glass.
1954 Economist 11 Sept. 1/2 The show [sc. Farnborough]..is both a shop-window and an end-of-term report.
1955 Times 6 July 16/1 The effects of end-account selling.
1959 Times 12 June 15/1 An end-of-season concert.
1960 Times 13 Jan. 17/2 There has recently been some movement of funds from London—quite apart from the Swiss end-year transactions.
1966 Rep. Comm. Inq. (Univ. of Oxf.) I. 182 At end-1965 prices.
1966 Listener 23 June 914/3 But it was the end-of-term exam that really made him anxious.
1969 Canad. Antiques Collector June 24/1 ‘End of day’ novelties, blown for fun from remaining glass, are..the most interesting from a collector's point of view.
1981 P. Phillips Encycl. Glass 163/3 These multi-coloured bottles were often made from the glass left in various pots at the close of work—hence the common name ‘end-of-day’ glass in England (also ‘splashed glass’ in America).
d. In hackneyed phrase at the end of the day, eventually; when all's said and done.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > the end [phrase] > in the end or at last
at lastlOE
at the lastlOE
afinec1325
in the lasta1382
for conclusionc1386
an-endc1390
the lasta1400
in (the) finea1500
at conclusiona1513
in conclusiona1513
at long last1523
at length1525
in (rarely at, upon) the upshot1577
in the final (also last) analysis1786
in the death1958
at the end of the day1974
1974 H. McKeating God & Future vi. 96 Eschatological language is useful because it is a convenient way of indicating..what at the end of the day we set most store by.
1976 South Notts Echo 16 Dec. 1/4 ‘At the end of the day,’ he stated, ‘this verifies what I have been saying against the cuts in public expenditure.’
1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 213/2 I want to make a number of points to you, which we believe invalidate..the recommendations they make at the end of the day.
1982 B. Beaumont Thanks to Rugby iii. 39 But, at the end of the day, it is an amateur sport and everyone is free to put as much or as little into the game as he chooses.
1986 Independent 17 Nov. 4 At the end of the day businessmen can talk to the city in a way chief executives cannot.
8. 1916 D. H. Lawrence Let. 7 Nov. (1932) 375 The book frightens me: it is so end-of-the-world.a1963 L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) ix. 286 A recent ‘end-of-the-world’ forecast.† c. In phrase to be the end of (cf. to be the death of at death n. Phrases 4). Now used, somewhat trivially, in the sense ‘to be the downfall of, to put an end to (ambition, promotion, etc.)’.
a. Termination of existence; destruction, abolition. (The early examples of end of the world should perhaps be referred to 7, as world may have been taken in its older temporal sense; cf. however French fin du monde.) it isn't (or wouldn't be, etc.) the end of the world, it is not a calamity, it is not a matter of great importance. Also end-of-the-world used attributively or as an adjective.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun]
end832
bale-sithea1000
wrakea1275
wonderc1275
destroyingc1300
destruction1340
contritionc1384
stroying1396
undoing1398
tininga1400
ruinc1425
fatec1430
fordoingc1450
perishing?1523
shipwreck1526
pernicion?1530
ruining1562
ruinating1587
defeasance1590
defeature1592
breakneck1598
ruination1599
defeat1600
doom1609
planet-striking1611
mismaking1615
rasurea1616
destructa1638
perition1640
interemption1656
smashing1821
degrowth1876
uncreation1884
creative destruction1927
832 Charter in Sweet O.E.T. 447 ðet he ðas god forðleste oð wiaralde ende.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 22390 His dome þate him sale driue til ende.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. i. §8 The world may have an end before he proves his Atoms could give it a beginning.
a1704 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. I. §126 There would be an end of all civil government, if the assignment of civil power were by such institution.
1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara iii. in John Bull's Other Island 271 Nothing's going to happen to you;..it wouldnt be the end of the world if anything did.
1964 J. Creasey Guilt of Innocence xvi. 136 I know exactly what a shock you had... But it isn't the end of the world, you know.
1964 A. Wilson Late Call ii. 78 ‘I don't see the numbers very clearly...’ ‘Well, it isn't the end of the world if you don't.’
b. The death (of a person); a mode or manner of death.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [noun]
hensithOE
qualmOE
bale-sithea1000
endingc1000
fallOE
forthsitheOE
soulingOE
life's endOE
deathOE
hethensithc1200
last end?c1225
forthfarec1275
dying1297
finec1300
partingc1300
endc1305
deceasec1330
departc1330
starving1340
passingc1350
latter enda1382
obita1382
perishingc1384
carrion1387
departing1388
finishmentc1400
trespassement14..
passing forthc1410
sesse1417
cess1419
fininga1425
resolutiona1425
departisona1450
passagea1450
departmentc1450
consummation?a1475
dormition1483
debt to (also of) naturea1513
dissolutionc1522
expirationa1530
funeral?a1534
change1543
departure1558
last change1574
transmigration1576
dissolving1577
shaking of the sheets?1577
departance1579
deceasure1580
mortality1582
deceasing1591
waftage1592
launching1599
quietus1603
doom1609
expire1612
expiring1612
period1613
defunctiona1616
Lethea1616
fail1623
dismissiona1631
set1635
passa1645
disanimation1646
suffering1651
abition1656
Passovera1662
latter (last) end1670
finis1682
exitus1706
perch1722
demission1735
demise1753
translation1760
transit1764
dropping1768
expiry1790
departal1823
finish1826
homegoing1866
the last (also final, great) round-up1879
snuffing1922
fade-out1924
thirty1929
appointment in Samarra1934
dirt nap1981
big chill1987
c1305 Edmund Conf. 590 in South-Eng. Leg. (1887) 448 Þe more is bodi ipined was: þe ner he was þen ende.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 3905 Rachel bare..beniamyn þat was þe cause of hir ende.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 426 Bed me bilyue my bale stour, & bryng me on ende.
a1440 Sir Eglam. 756 The dragon hath tan hys ȝynde.
c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine Prol. 177 Of her lyffe & also of her heende.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1438 Ffele folke forfaren with a ffeble ende.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 650 This ende had the valiant Lorde, Richard Plantagenet Duke of Yorke.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 44 Then if he loose he makes a Swan-like end, Fading in musique. View more context for this quotation
1667 S. Pepys Diary 19 May (1974) VIII. 222 Great talk of the good end that my Lord Treasurer made.
1733 A. Pope Epitaph Gay in Gentleman's Mag. June 319 Belovd through life; lamented in thy end.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 97 Call then a Priest, and fit him for his End.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar vi. 52 To be murdered was the usual end of exceptionally distinguished Romans.
ΚΠ
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. i. 15 Least..the..King of Kings..award Either of you to be the others end. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 130 This apoplexi wil certaine be his end. View more context for this quotation
1934 G. B. Shaw On the Rocks (new ed.) i, in Too True to be Good 200 He was just ripe for the Cabinet when his wife..made money by journalism. That was the end of him.
1936 J. B. Priestley They walk in City iv. 76 She and the bow-legged chap would be pushing a pram up the road..and that..would be the end of them.
9. Ultimate state or condition. Chiefly in Bible phrases, in which, however, end is often misinterpreted in sense 8b.
ΚΠ
c825 Vesp. Psalter xxxviii. [xxxix.] 5 Cuð me doa dryhten ende minne.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xxxvii. 37 Marke the perfect man, and behold the vpright: for the end of that man is peace. View more context for this quotation
10. latter (†last) end: variously used in senses 7b, 8b, 9. Also Scottish hinder end.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [noun]
hensithOE
qualmOE
bale-sithea1000
endingc1000
fallOE
forthsitheOE
soulingOE
life's endOE
deathOE
hethensithc1200
last end?c1225
forthfarec1275
dying1297
finec1300
partingc1300
endc1305
deceasec1330
departc1330
starving1340
passingc1350
latter enda1382
obita1382
perishingc1384
carrion1387
departing1388
finishmentc1400
trespassement14..
passing forthc1410
sesse1417
cess1419
fininga1425
resolutiona1425
departisona1450
passagea1450
departmentc1450
consummation?a1475
dormition1483
debt to (also of) naturea1513
dissolutionc1522
expirationa1530
funeral?a1534
change1543
departure1558
last change1574
transmigration1576
dissolving1577
shaking of the sheets?1577
departance1579
deceasure1580
mortality1582
deceasing1591
waftage1592
launching1599
quietus1603
doom1609
expire1612
expiring1612
period1613
defunctiona1616
Lethea1616
fail1623
dismissiona1631
set1635
passa1645
disanimation1646
suffering1651
abition1656
Passovera1662
latter (last) end1670
finis1682
exitus1706
perch1722
demission1735
demise1753
translation1760
transit1764
dropping1768
expiry1790
departal1823
finish1826
homegoing1866
the last (also final, great) round-up1879
snuffing1922
fade-out1924
thirty1929
appointment in Samarra1934
dirt nap1981
big chill1987
the world > space > relative position > position at the back > [noun] > back part or rear
hinder enda1382
back-half1408
backside1417
arse1510
rear1609
postern1611
back-enda1617
arreara1627
back1626
averse1655
posteriorsa1657
ass1700
tail-end1747
rear end1785
west side1829
arse-end1837
hindside1862
ass-end1934
the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > less suitable end
latter enda1382
the wrong end1587
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part
eveningOE
enda1200
eventide?c1225
finea1350
tail1377
latter (last) enda1382
issue1484
latter day?1498
waning1561
last days1572
heel1584
sunsetting1593
fall1596
lag-end1598
posterior1598
sunset1599
dotage1606
exit1615
stern1623
waning timea1639
last1683
heel piecea1764
shank1828
tail-end1845
tailpiece1869
tag1882
teatime1913
end-point1921
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. i. 13 Wel shal be in the laste endys.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 158 The latter ende of this moneth of July..the Legate..tooke his leaue of the king.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. v. 28 A good Trauailer is something at the latter end of a dinner. View more context for this quotation
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 60 in Sylva The middle or latter end of this Moneth.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. ii. 57 Towards the Dukes latter end, I read this History to him.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement
forewardOE
accordc1275
covenant1297
end1297
form1297
frettec1330
conjurationc1374
treatc1380
bargainc1386
contractc1386
comenaunt1389
compositionc1405
treaty1427
pact1429
paction1440
reconventionc1449
treatisea1464
hostage1470
packa1475
trystc1480
bond (also band) of manrent1482
covenance1484
concordance1490
patisement1529
capitulation1535
conventmenta1547
convenience1551
compact1555
negotiation1563
sacrament1563
match1569
consortship1592
after-agreementa1600
combourgeoisie1602
convention1603
comburghership1606
transaction1611
end-makingc1613
obligement1627
bare contract1641
stipulation1649
accompackmentc1650
rue-bargaina1657
concordat1683
minute1720
tacka1758
understanding1803
meet1804
it's a go1821
deal1863
whizz1869
stand-in1870
gentlemen's agreement1880
meeting of minds1883
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 169 To London vorte wende, To nyme þer ys conseyl, wuch were best ȝende.
c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 168 Wel sche saugh ther nas non other ende.
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1714) 66 Unto the time his said Kyng had made such End, with him, his Adherents, and Fautours, as he desired.
1489 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 82 The dayes men cannot agre us, so Mr. Mydleton to make the end.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 27 §100 Parties, to whome any such offence shall hap to be committed, shall in nowise take any ende or agreement with the offenders.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > completing > [noun]
enda1300
chevisancec1330
applyinga1382
perfectiona1382
pointc1385
finishmentc1400
accomplishingc1405
complement1419
consummationa1425
effecta1425
performinga1425
accomplishment1425
fining?1448
complishing1449
complishment1454
achevisauncec1475
achievement1477
perfectinga1513
cheving?1518
furniture1529
achievance1531
exploiture1531
exploiting1538
perimplishment1554
consummating1555
finishing?1563
chevance1570
coronation1582
crowning1586
adimpletion1624
fulfilment1624
complusmenta1628
completure1642
completement1652
transaction1655
patration1656
perfunction1656
completion1657
completing1727
ultimation1791
finality1833
perfectuation1859
fruition1885
a1300 Cursor Mundi 25862 Þat þou mai noght do to end.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 27783 For drede þat he may noght mak end.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10127 Prophecies com al to end.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 8580 Al þat his fader be-gynne muȝt salamon til hende hit broȝt.
c1440 Boetus, Laud MS. 559. 10 Withouten hym may hit nought To an eande our purpose be brought.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 660 Feill anoyis thoill ȝhe sall, Or that ȝour purpos ende haf tane.
a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. A5v To bring the will of our desires to end.
1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour i. i. sig. B4v To eate and sleepe supinely, is the end Of humane blessings.
1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation Ep. Ded. 3 To have been at the end of their designs.
13. † b. to have its end(s) upon: to have influence upon. Obsolete.
a. Event, issue, result.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > outcome or that which results
issuea1325
outcominga1382
conclusionc1384
endc1385
fruita1400
finec1405
termination?a1425
sumc1430
succession1514
sequel1524
game1530
success1537
event1539
pass1542
increase1560
outgate1568
exit1570
cropc1575
utmosta1586
upshoot1598
sequence1600
upshot1604
resultance1616
upshut1620
succedenta1633
apotelesm1636
come-off1640
conclude1643
prosult1647
offcome1666
resultant1692
outlet1710
period1713
outcome1788
outrun1801
outcome1808
upset1821
overcome1822
upping1828
summary1831
outgo1870
upcomec1874
out-turn1881
end-product1923
pay-off1926
wash-up1961
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Lucrece. 1774 What ende that I make, it shal be so!
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 28 Onli in name, & as to ȝend & effect is nowȝt.
1483 Cath. Angl. 114 An Ende, exitus.
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Suffolk xix But note the ende.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iii. 125 The ende went on his side.
1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iv, in Wks. (1874) IV. 73 The end still crownes the deede.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 160 It is the end that crownes the worke.
1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion i. vi. 50 The end shall crown us: The Gods are just.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > power > influence > have influence with [verb (transitive)] > exert influence upon
weighc1571
sway1593
subject1605
to have its end(s) upon1638
influence1658
ponderate1670
operate1674
to touch up1791
protocol1832
rig1908
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §49. 71 The Authority of one holy man, which has apparently no ends upon me.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. viii. 284 Religion considered as a Probation, has had its End upon all Persons, to whom, [etc.].
14.
a. An intended result of an action; an aim, purpose. (Cf. Latin finis.) to accomplish one's end(s, to answer one's end(s, to fulfil one's end(s, to gain one's end(s, †to make one's end(s, to serve one's end(s: see those verbs.
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the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object
willeOE
errand?c1225
purposec1300
endc1305
emprisec1330
intentc1340
use1340
conclusionc1374
studya1382
pointc1385
causec1386
gamea1393
term?c1400
businessc1405
finec1405
intentionc1410
object?a1425
obtent?a1475
drift1526
intend1526
respect1528
flight1530
finality?1541
stop1551
scope1559
butt?1571
bent1579
aiming point1587
pursuitc1592
aim1595
devotion1597
meaning1605
maina1610
attempt1610
design1615
purport1616
terminusa1617
intendment1635
pretence1649
ettle1790
big (also great) idea1846
objective1878
objective1882
the name of the game1910
the object of the exercise1958
thrust1968
c1305 Edmund Conf. in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 72 Hit schal ȝut likie wel bi þan ȝ e wite þan ende.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. D1 The Sadlers next end is to make a good saddle.
a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1634) 232 A right end never hath a crooked rule leading to it.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 184 They study..not to make their ends on any mans weaknesse.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 174 This answer'd my End.
1735 G. Berkeley Def. Free-thinking in Math. in Wks. (1871) III. 304 I have no end to serve but truth.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. iii. 260 She had fully gained her end.
1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds vii. 88 I am rather afraid of our people mistaking the means for the end.
1857 D. Jerrold St. Giles x. 102 [He] was delighted..that the ends of justice would be satisfied.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 323 They may fairly use a little violence in order to accomplish their end.
b. In phrases, for or to this (that, what, which) end, to no end. Also in conjunctional phrase, to the end (that); formerly also, †to the end to (with infinitive).Now somewhat archaic or rhetorical; the ordinary phrase is in order (that or to).
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138. Wyclif. Sel. Wks. III. 354 Han power of him to þise ende.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. v. 51 Ȝee schulle knowe and preve, to the ende that ȝee schulle not ben disceyved.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. iii. 171 The faders hadd dyuerce wyues..to thende whan one was wyth childe, they myght take another.
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 64 a To thende they may al equally receive of the honnye.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C4 To the end to peruse the Greeke Authors. View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 28 To which end, King Abbas, sends his Ambassadour to Constantinople.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 70 I am come forth to withstand them, and to that end will back the Lions. View more context for this quotation
1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 187 It is to no end to look what St. Austin saith.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 305. ¶12 To the End that this College of Statesmen may be thoroughly practised in the Political Stile.
1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs (1739) iii. 47 Study..for what end ye were created.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. ii. 87 For this end, he summoned Luther to appear at Rome.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 170 For these ends, and for these ends alone, he wished to obtain arbitrary power.
c. Scottish. end's errand: the special design.
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1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie II. xvii. 158 Did they say nothing of the end's errand they had come upon?
15. A final cause; the object for which a thing exists; the purpose for which it is designed or instituted.
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the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object > purpose for which something intended
end1534
termination1576
ordination1607
intention1652
destinationa1656
1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces i. sig. A.5 Suche offyces..pertayne to the ende of felycitie.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvi. 299 And as man is the end of the World, so is God the end of Man.
1647 Humble Advice Assembly of Divines conc. Shorter Catech. (new ed.) 5 Mans chief end is to glorifie God, and to enjoy him for ever.
1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature vii. 147 The end of Society is the common welfare and good of the people associated.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xxiv. 702 I have considered the happiness of the people as the end of government.
1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air §60 The flower is the end or proper object of the seed.
a1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. iv. ii 375 The highest end of Church union..is quiet and unanimity.
III. Idiomatic phrases.
16. With various prepositions forming adverbial phrases.† b. for (an) end: in conclusion, finally, ‘to cut the matter short’.† d. to an end: consecutively, through the whole period specified.
a. at the end (Middle English at þen, atten ende), †at end: at last.
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c1300 Beket 81 Attan ende bi cas; Tho heo com aȝe thulke hous ther this Gilbert was.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 3287 Þai hadde woundes ille At þe nende.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 407 Of þyng þat is him dere Ich man preise at ende.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 128 Atenende þe zeneȝere..is ase þe ilke þet slepþ amide þe ze.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 14879 Þai at end him did on rod.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. 127 In end..the slaves..runne the Galley a shoare.
1872 R. Browning Hervé Riel My friend, I must speak out at the end, Though I find the speaking hard.
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1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 10 For ende, he counselleth Curio to take charge of the common wealth.
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 245 For an end therefore I tel you, etc.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 241 So it must fall out To him, or our Authorities, for an end . View more context for this quotation
c. in the end, †in end: ultimately, in the long run.
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c825 Vesp. Psalter ix. 19 Nales in ende oferȝeotulnis bið ðearfena.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 165 But in the end the losse fell to the Englishmen.
1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. I. i. 64 His [Edward I's] power and influence would in the end induce the different parties to appeal to him.
1885 Manch. Examiner 13 July 5/5 The match in the end was very narrowly won by Harrow.
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1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Dviv Neuer content with one colour, or fashion two dayes to an ende.
1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 478 Would any government..remain on foot three years to an end, if, etc.
1717 J. Fox Wanderer 160 Octavius..told him he should not live another Hour to an End.
17. on end (see also an-end adv.):† a. at last.† c. on (one's) way, forward, along; (whence to come on end, to come forward; (Middle English) to set spell or tale on end, to begin a discourse).
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c1175 Lamb. Hom. 25 Al swa he dođ swa þe swica þe bi-swikeđ hine seolfe on-ende.
c1320 Cast. Love 1064 Þat foreward on ende wel was i-holde.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 186 I drede on ende quat schulde byfalle.
b. consecutively, without intermission; also right or straight on end: (a) consecutively, uninterruptedly; (b) immediately.
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1634 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. xxxii. 111 And was brought, thrice on end, in remembrance of you in my prayer to God.
1778 G. L. Way Learning at Loss II. 147 'Twas at his House they [two lovers] broke cover. And then took off strait an End to Edinburgh.
1836 in Byron's Wks. (1846) 552/1 The ministerial prints raved for two months on end.
1837 T. Hook Jack Brag I. i. 16 The fox going away right on-end across a heavy country.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Right on end, in a continuous line; as the masts should be.
1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men I. vii. 184 Working sixteen hours on end at twopence an hour.
1883 S. Baring-Gould John Herring I. xi. 154 I be going to die right on end, I be.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1295 Seeth set tale on ende [Vesp. spell o-nend] And tolde whi he was sende.
1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 404 These would bee soundly spurred vp, and whipped on end.
1630 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 266 Others will not come on end chearfully.
d. in an upright position, resting on (its) end.
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the world > space > relative position > vertical position > vertical or upright [phrase]
rightOE
on enda1300
an-end1530
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [phrase] > on end
on enda1300
an-end1530
a1300 Cursor Mundi 25049 Þe cros..quen it es sett on end vp euen, It takens pes tuix erth and heuen.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 86 Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders.
1836 Random Recoll. Ho. Lords xvi. 383 His dark hair..stands on end on the fore part of his head.
1840 W. Irving Sketches in Paris in 1825 in Knickerbocker Nov. 425 A Parisian hotel..is a street set on end.
18. without end (Middle English buten ende): endlessly, for ever; also in adjectival sense, endless. world without end: see world n. Phrases 2d.
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the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adverb]
always fortha700
alwayeOE
oeOE
everOE
buten endea1000
echelichec1175
till doomsdayc1175
to timea1200
perdurablyc1275
in ayea1300
without endc1330
anytimea1375
for ay and oc1374
continually1382
perpetuallyc1385
ay-forthc1390
everlastinglyc1390
perpetualc1392
eternallyc1393
endlessa1400
in (also for, to) perpetuitya1400
always?c1425
without timec1425
endlesslya1450
sempiternlyc1450
infinitivec1470
aylastinglyc1475
everlastingc1475
incessantly1481
in saecula saeculorum1481
sempiternally1509
all days1533
for altogether1542
constantly1567
interminate?1567
incorruptibly1579
perpetuously1612
in perpetuum1613
eternal1614
unterminably1631
unfadinglya1672
unendingly1674
for a constancy1710
perennially1729
tarnally1790
imperishably1795
indefectibly1837
immortally1858
fadelessly1861
a1000 Boeth. Metr. xxi. 44 Þæt micle leoht..is..Ece butan ende.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 409 Rihhtwise menn..shulenn habbenn..A. butenn ende blisse inoh.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2417 He ȝaf to blauncheflour Wales wiþ outen end Bidene.
138. J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 24 Helle wiþ-outen hende.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) iii. 326 The vyrgyn mary..rayneth with cryste without enden.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Mattyns f. i As it was in the begynning, is now, and euer shalbe world without ende.
1577 S. Avgvstines Manuell in Certaine Prayers S. Augustines Medit. sig. Pvjv Pleasaunt tunes..are song to thy glory..without all end.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 781 A time me thinkes too short, To make a world-without-end bargaine in. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 67 Torture without end Still urges. View more context for this quotation
19. † a. end for end: (Nautical, of a cable) paid out to the full length (obsolete).
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1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 30 End for end is when the Cable runneth cleere out of the Hawse, or any Rope out of his shiuer.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Filer le cable bout par bout, to veer away the cable to the end, to veer out the cable end for end.
b. to shift end for end, to turn end for end: to put each end of (a thing) where the other was; chiefly Nautical, to reverse (a rope), to upset (a boat). to go end for end: (of a boat) to be upset. Also in same sense, end over end.
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a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §2 316 We must turn our Style End for End.
1769 Philos. Trans. 1768 (Royal Soc.) 58 284 The axis of the telescope was turned end for end; that is, the telescope..was turned upside down.
1804 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. I. 224 A heavy sea striking the afterpart, it [the boat] went end for end over.
1805 W. Hunter in Naval Chron. 13 23 It would turn the Cutter end-over-end.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. To shift a rope end for end, as in a tackle, the fall is made the standing part, and the standing part becomes the fall.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 201 He turns commonplaces end for end.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. 175 The boat will be thrown..end over end.
c. end to end: with the ends in contact, lengthwise.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > near by [phrase] > touching at the ends
end to end1860
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. §1. 228 39000 waves of red light placed end to end would make up an inch.
d. end-to-end: applied to the (motoring) course extending from one end of Britain to the other, i.e. from John o' Groats to Land's End.
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1908 Daily Rep. 20 July 9/1 The start for the end-to-end run.
1909 Daily Chron. 14 Aug. 6/5 The first attempt ever made to drive a sidecar and passenger over the End-to-End course.
20.
a. end on:
(a) placed so as to present the end directly towards the eye, or towards any object; opposed to broadside on. Also attributive. Chiefly Nautical. Also transferred, applied to an educational course in which students spend six months at college and six months in industrial work alternately.
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1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. x. 156 She..being nearly end on.
1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xxxiv. 373 A single pole end-on is sufficient.
1836 E. Howard Rattlin xli From the end-on view we had of her, we could not count her ports.
1866 R. M. Ballantyne Shifting Winds iv. 31 The lifeboat met the next breaker end-on.
1880 W. MacCormac Antiseptic Surg. 229 The accident was caused by a scaffold plank of wood..falling end-on upon the man's head.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 366/1 Several ships have been built for the ‘end-on attack’.
1894 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Oct. 2/1 Ships built mainly for end-on fire.
1898 R. Kipling in Morning Post 10 Nov. 5/1 I meant my shot for an end-on shot.
1908 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 256/1 The greatest care should be taken on this road, else an end-on collision is possible.
1910 Installation News 4 59/1 In a Tungsten lamp only 50% of the light is directed below the horizontal and the end-on candle power.
1959 P. F. R. Venables Sandwich Courses vi. 101 If half [the students] are away, and half at the firm..training and production [are] facilitated by this Cox and Box arrangement of end-on courses, i.e. two equivalent groups within the year.
(b) ‘Working a seam of coal, &c., at right angles to the cleat, or natural planes of cleavage’ (Gresley, 1883).
b. end up: with the end uppermost. Esp. in all ends up: completely, utterly. Also attributive ( end-up) of the nose: snub, turned-up.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter > utterly
all outc1300
out and outc1300
at all devicec1385
to devicec1385
right out?1543
up to the chin1546
up to the eyes1607
upsy Friese1609
up to the (or one's) eyebrowsa1627
all hollow1762
(immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822
all ends up1850
fair and square1870
right spang1884
to the wide1895
a (also one) hundred per cent1911
1850 H. C. Watson Camp-fires Revol. 311 The broad face; the short, end-up nose; the light and red hair.
1921 A. W. Myers Twenty Years Lawn Tennis 19 Barrett beat him ‘all ends up’ in an early round.
1932 Times Educ. Suppl. 10 Dec. 1/3 Larwood bowled him all ends up.
1954 P. Frankau Wreath for Enemy iii. iv. 203 In two months' time you'll be cursing me all ends up.
21. no end: (colloquial) a vast quantity or number (of). Also (modern slang) as adverb, = ‘immensely’, ‘to any extent’; and (with of) qualifying a predicate. Cf. 1b.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > infinity of amount > an infinite amount
infinityc1480
infinite1563
infinitive1595
no end1623
infinitude1667
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 143 You..made no end of promises.
1856 C. Reade It is never too Late I. x. 159 Box at the opera costs no end.
1859 F. W. Farrar Eric 55 You are no end cleverer and stronger.
1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate III. v. 121 What comfort have I in a big house, and no end of gardens?
1871 F. C. Burnand More Happy Thoughts (ed. 2) xix. 143 He ‘makes no end of stuff’, or ‘loses no end of stuff’..on the Derby.
1872 E. Peacock Mabel Heron I. i. 9 You will have no end of trouble.
1883 W. Besant All in Garden Fair viii Keats was no end of a fellow.
1909 R. E. Knowles Attic Guest 54 You'll have no end of fun with him.
1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 769/1 ‘I really must show this to Champneys,’ thought Michael; ‘it will please him no end.’
1955 Ess. & Stud. 8 5 A few clean strokes of Occam's razor would have helped Mr. Jackson no end.
1958 H. Babcock I don't want to shoot Elephant 8 I often walk fifteen miles a day while hunting... This puzzles my wife no end.
1970 New Yorker 3 Oct. 90/2 Thomas had been impressed no end by the sight of Klüver..fixing an art-and-technology malfunction with a pair of pliers.
22. With verbs. (See also 12 – 14.)
a. to be at an end: (of resources, etc.) to be exhausted; (of periods of time) to be completed; (of an action or state) to terminate. In corresponding senses, to bring to an end, to come to an end.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 22263 His rigning es brote til ende.
14.. in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 155 Then schulde oure trobul be at a nende.
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido v. sig. F2 Our trauels are at end.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 430 Speake for your selues, my wit is at an ende. View more context for this quotation
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 55 in Sylva A Gard'ner's work is never at an end.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 284. ⁋2 Their affairs will be at an end.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxvii. 235 Will these years and years of misery come to an end?—shall we be free?
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 47 This part of the festival was nearly come to an end.
1877 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. (1878) 1st Ser. 198 Imposture must come to an end.
b. to be at the end of (one's resources, etc.): to have no more to spend; to be at one's wits' end: to be utterly at a loss, to be quite perplexed.
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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. i. f. 92v They were at theyr wyttes endes whither to turne them.
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 32 It woulde make menne..to bee at their wyttes endes, yf they weare not accustomed to suche tumultuous tempest.
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iv. 19 He is at an end of all his Cash.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 280 I am..at my wits' end.
c. to put an end to, †to set end of: to terminate, put a stop to, abolish.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to
astintc700
stathea1200
atstuntc1220
to put an end toa1300
to set end ofa1300
batec1300
stanch1338
stinta1350
to put awayc1350
arrestc1374
finisha1375
terminec1390
achievea1393
cease1393
removec1405
terminate?a1425
stop1426
surceasec1435
resta1450
discontinue1474
adetermine1483
blina1500
stay1525
abrogatea1529
suppressa1538
to set in or at stay1538
to make stay of1572
depart1579
check1581
intercept1581
to give a stop toa1586
dirempt1587
date1589
period1595
astayc1600
nip1600
to break off1607
snape1631
sist1635
to make (a) stop of1638
supersede1643
assopiatea1649
periodizea1657
unbusya1657
to put a stop to1679
to give the holla to1681
to run down1697
cessate1701
end1737
to choke off1818
stopper1821
punctuate1825
to put a stopper on1828
to take off ——1845
still1850
to put the lid on1873
on the fritz1900
to close down1903
to put the fritz on something1910
to put the bee on1918
switch1921
to blow the whistle on1934
a1300 Cursor Mundi 25870 Þar has þi schrift sett end o pyne.
1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 1172 The Day of Judgment..shall..put an end to all their mischiefs for ever.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 12 Put a Quick end to this Treaty.
1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) III. xlii. 150 If an end is not put to this war there is an end to this country.
d. to have, take an end: to be terminated, concluded.
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a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. E4v My sorrowes will haue end.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence i. 5 This so great a woork now ceased and took an end.
e. to make an end: to conclude, finish (absol.); also const. of, with.
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the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)]
to make an endc893
afilleOE
endc975
fullOE
full-doOE
full-workOE
fullendOE
fullfremeOE
full-forthlOE
fillc1175
fulfilc1300
complec1315
asum1340
full-make1340
performa1382
finisha1400
accomplishc1405
cheve1426
upwindc1440
perfurnish?c1450
sumc1450
perimplish1468
explete?a1475
fullcome1477
consume1483
consomme1489
perimplenish1499
perfect1512
perfinish1523
complete1530
consummate1530
do1549
to run out1553
perfectionate1570
win1573
outwork1590
to bring about1598
exedifya1617
to do up1654
ratifyc1720
ultimate1849
terminate1857
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell (story) [verb (transitive)] > conclude (story)
to make an endc893
binda1300
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. ii. ii. §1 Biddende þæt hie..þæs gewinnes sumne ende gedyden.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 112 To make an end, here was sometime a religious College.
1611 Bible (King James) Ezra x. 17 And they made an ende, with all the men that had taken strange wiues. View more context for this quotation
1891 N.E.D. at End Mod. The government has resolved to make an end of the insurgents.
f. to keep one's end up (also to keep or hold up one's end): to sustain one's part or bear one's share fully in an undertaking or performance.
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1867 Baily's Monthly Mag. Aug. 291 Mr. Appleby kept up his end very seasonably.
1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People vi. 63 Nobody can say she hain't been a good yoke-fellow; she's kept up her end.
1887 A. W. Tourgée Button's Inn 131 She'd be worn out..trying to keep up her end [of the work].
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker i. 21 Do you think..that a man who can paint a thousand-dollar picture has not grit enough to keep his end up in the stock market?
1899 Westm. Gaz. 24 Nov. 5/1 Colonel Baden-Powell and his gallant garrison will have to keep their end up unassisted.
a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Rolling Stones (1916) 90 The Diamond-Cross'll hold its end up with a man who'll look after its interests.
1926 P. C. Standing Anglo-Australian Cricket xxiii. 103 Ranjitsinhji, who scored 42 and not out 93 and was still ‘keeping up his end’ when time was called.
1928 Observer 18 Mar. 15/3 Not a single woman who appears..in this play is able to keep her end up after the cosmic announcer informs the inhabitants of the world that the world is about to end.
1970 ‘E. McGirr’ Death pays Wages v. 99 Piron had a certain enthusiasm for the Great Apes and was able to hold his end up, thanks to his good memory.
23. Elliptically. and there (so) an end: = ‘this is, shall be, an end.’ Obsolete or archaic.
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xv. 24 Aftirward an ende, whanne, etc.]
1607 S. Collins Serm. Paules-Crosse 51 Which..I will speak a word or twain unto, and so an end.
1615 J. Day Festivals 340 As for his Carkasse, a Coffin shall cover it, and there an ende of our great Purchaser.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. iii. 65 What I will, I will, and there an end . View more context for this quotation
24. Proverbial phrases: to begin at the wrong end. †not to care which end goes forward: to be negligent. †to get by the end: to get command of, so as to have ready for use. to get the better end of: to get the advantage of. to have the better, or worse, end of the staff, ‘to get the best, or worst, of it’. to have at one's fingers' or tongue's end: to know by heart, be able to quote with readiness. †at the hinder end of the bargain: when accounts are settled, figurative. to be at an idle end, to be unoccupied; (to live) at a loose end, with no fixed occupation. †to live at stave's end, ? to be unsociable, keep every one at a distance. to make both ends meet, to make two ends meet, to make the two ends of the year meet: to live within one's income [compare French joindre les deux bouts, les deux bouts de l'an] . to come to the end of one's tether: see tether n. 4; to go (in) off the deep end, etc.: see deep adj. 1d.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 29 Men of þat side schal haue the worse ende.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Eiiv I lyue here at staues ende.
1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 3 Thai that have the wors end of the staf shal be sure to be wrung to the wors.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 74 Thou hast it..at the fingers ends, as they say. View more context for this quotation
1608 W. Clerk Withals's Dict. Eng. & Lat. 86 Negligently, as caring not what ende goes forward.
1638 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 97 We have rather cheated the devil, than he us; and have gotten the better end of him.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cumb. 219 Worldly wealth he cared not for, desiring onely to make both ends meet.
c1680 W. Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 55 Getting a scripture-word by the end.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Ends..Tis good to make both ends meet.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 146 The Devil will have you at the hnider [sic] End of the Bargain.
1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) To have the better end of the Staff.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxx. 178 Your Lordship has got a Word by the End, that you seem mighty fond of.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. x. 69 He made shift to make the two ends of the year meet.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Apr. 1/1 And living completely at a loose end.
1876 R. Broughton Joan III. ii. iii. 103 By five and thirty the best of us has pretty well come to the end of her tether.
1876 R. Broughton Joan III. ii. iv. 131 Anthony struggling to make two ends meet!
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) Pref. 6 Most of the elementary works I have seen begin at the wrong end.
1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel (ed. 2) 183 He might sometimes seem to be at an idle end.
1884 Illustr. London News 11 Oct. 338/3 She..had Shakespeare and Milton at her tongue's end.
1884 Graphic 23 Aug. 198/2 Her mother has to contrive to make both ends meet.
Compounds
C1. General attributive with sense ‘placed at the end’, ‘coming at the end’, or ‘last used’.
end-body n.
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1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 861/2 Nerve fibres at their peripheral extremities terminate in connection with peculiar structures, named end-bodies, terminal bodies.
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 861/2 The peripheral end-bodies in the skin.
1903 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 3) 241/2 End-body, that one of the two elements of the serum of an immunized animal which serves actually to kill the bacteria. The other element, the Between-body or Immune-body, simply fastens the end-body to the bacteria. The end-body is also called the complement and addiment.
end-brush n.
end-bud n.
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1710 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (1719) 152 The same course of pinching off End-Buds is very profitable in Summer also.
1900 J. S. Kingsley Text Bk. Vertebr. Zool. 68 Allied to the sense organs of the lateral line are structures known as end buds.
end-handkerchief n.
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1753 Scots Mag. Feb. 100/2 The end-handkerchiefs would sell as well as the other ten.
end-loop n.
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1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 90 Fixing the two End Loops upon the Stakes A and C.
end-man n.
end-parlour n.
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1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 228 There is one little end-parlour, an after-thought of the original builder.
end-process n.
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a1942 B. Malinowski Sci. Theory of Culture (1944) x. 92 The supply of physical material, the conditions in which the digestive processes can be carried out and the sanitary arrangements of the end-processes.
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Mar. 156/5 The end-process of a long evolution.
end-result n.
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1912 J. S. Huxley Individual in Animal Kingdom ii. 52 These substances—its food—may be varied..and the end-result, its protoplasm, yet be the same.
1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 157/1 Mr. Gaitskell can claim to have been surprisingly successful; but the end-result is unappetising.
1966 Lancet 31 Dec. 1458/1 The same end-result can be achieved by the subsequent use of a promoting agent.
end-rhyme n.
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1855 H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang. 332/1 End-rhyme, chiming at the end of each verse.
1907 Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. I. 62 The consistent use of end-rime and alliteration in one and the same poem.
1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 296 End-rhyme was called runhending.
1953 G. Turville-Petre Origins Icelandic Lit. i. 41 Egill was before his time in using end-rime regularly.
end-shoot n.
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1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 89/1 Nearly all the end-shoots may be safely taken away, for they take up the strength of the plant.
end-situation n.
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1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind iii. §8. 103 When the animal has attained his goal, he has arrived at a situation which to him is an end-situation.
end-spurt n.
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1918 C. S. Myers Present-day Applic. Psychol. 13 Thus when the fatigue involved is slight, and the influence of practice or of end-spurt is sufficiently great, a larger instead of a smaller output of work will occur towards the end of the day's work.
1963 J. M. Fraser Psychol. (ed. 2) xvii. 222 A very dramatic effect in speeding up the tempo..by..extending the influence shown in the ‘end-spurt’.
end-wall n.
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1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 156 The Flue, Shaft, Fire, and Ash-hole to be without, tho' joining close to the End-wall.
end-wheel n.
C2. † end-hand n. Obsolete the hand nearest to the end of anything. † end-land n. Obsolete ? a frontier region.† end-sith n. [Old English síð fate] Obsolete death-fate.
end-around n. (a) American Football an offensive running play in which an end (sense 3g) carries the ball behind his own team's line and round the opposite end; frequently attributive; (b) Computing used attributively to designate an operation of a cyclic nature in which a digit is transferred from one end of a register to the other.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > [adjective] > operation on register
end-around1934
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres
rush1857
punt-out1861
goal-kicking1871
safety1879
safety touchdown1879
scrimmage1880
rushing1882
safety touch1884
touchback1884
forward pass1890
run1890
blocking1891
signal1891
fake1893
onside kick1895
tandem-play1895
pass play1896
spiral1896
shift1901
end run1902
straight-arm1903
quarterback sneak1904
runback1905
roughing1906
Minnesota shift1910
quarterbacking1910
snap-back1910
pickoff1912
punt return1914
screen forward pass1915
screen pass1920
power play1921
sneak1921
passback1922
snap1922
defence1923
reverse1924
carry1927
lateral1927
stiff-arm1927
zone1927
zone defence1927
submarine charge1928
squib1929
block1931
pass rushing1933
safetying1933
trap play1933
end-around1934
straight-arming1934
trap1935
mousetrap1936
buttonhook1938
blitzing1940
hand-off1940
pitchout1946
slant1947
strike1947
draw play1948
shovel pass1948
bootleg1949
option1950
red dog1950
red-dogging1951
rollout1951
submarine1952
sleeper pass1954
draw1956
bomb1960
swing pass1960
pass rush1962
blitz1963
spearing1964
onsides kick1965
takeaway1967
quarterback sack1968
smash-mouth1968
veer1968
turn-over1969
bump-and-run1970
scramble1971
sack1972
nose tackle1975
nickel1979
pressure1981
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [adjective] > actions or manoeuvres
end-around1934
blitzing1940
slant1947
bootleg1949
red-dogging1951
pass-rushing1961
bump-and-run1970
run-and-shoot1975
1934 Birmingham (Alabama) News 4 Nov. 15/1 The famous end-around play accounted for Alabama's initial touchdown.
1946 Ann. Computation Lab. Harvard Univ. 1 15 All storage counters are equipped with..end around carry.
1954 G. H. Allen Encycl. Football Drills v. 35 (heading) How to drill for end around.
1958 J. Oliver Offensive Football v. 48 A very fine counter play in all series is the end-around play.
1975 IEEE Trans. Computers 24 953/1 A set of shift registers..connected for end-around shifting.
1983 N.Y. Times 31 Jan. a1/2 The Redskins gained 44 yards on an end-around play and scored the winning touchdown on a 43-yard run.
end-artery n. [ < German endarterie (J. Cohnheim Untersuchungen ueber d. embolischen Processe (1872) i. 18), < end n. + artery n.] Anatomy an artery which supplies almost all the blood to a part of the body and does not anastomose with itself or with other arteries.
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1880 Glasgow Med. Jrnl. Dec. 490 Although not anatomically, the superior mesenteric is functionally an ‘end artery’.
1883 J. Coats Man. Pathol. 35 There are parts of the body in which the arteries are distributed to a perfectly definite piece of tissue, and have no anastomotic connections. In the case of such arteries, to which Cohnheim gives the name of End Arteries, the results of obstruction are very serious.
1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) i. 11 The retinal arteries are end-arteries and have no anastomoses at the ora serrata.
end-board n. (a) (see quot.); (b) a board n. (sense 4) of a book.
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society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover > boards
pasteboard1511
board1533
cloth-board1832
end-boardc1860
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 70 What are the ‘end boards’? They are boards which cover and form the ends of the meetings.
1936 Burlington Mag. May 213/1 Adhering to the inside of the end-boards of a great ninth-century book of the Gospels.
end-bulb n. (see quot.).
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1879 H. Calderwood Relations Mind & Brain iii. 42 This terminal expansion [of a nerve] is known as an end-bulb, or touch organ.
1887 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. V. 150/2 In the clitoris these end-bulbs (genital end-bulbs)..are round, elongated, or oval.
1898 H. Morris's Human Anat. (ed. 2) 1076 The spheroidal end-bulbs of Krause, found in the conjunctiva and mucous membrane.
end-fast adj. fixed on end, standing upright.
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1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 282 Neir by the boundis of Brigantia thair stude Ane end fast stane.
end-fire array n. a radio antenna array in which the direction of reception of electromagnetic waves is in line with the elements of the array; so end-fire radiation, etc.
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1936 R. S. Glasgow Princ. Radio Engin. xiv. 458 If..there is a progressive phase difference between the currents of the adjacent antennas, the radiation will be concentrated along the axis of the array instead of at right angles to it. This type of structure is known as an end-fire array.
1939 Amat. Radio Handbk. (Radio Soc. Gt. Brit.) x. 147 Aerials do not usually radiate uniformly in all directions... The effect of the ground is generally disadvantageous..but it does help in allowing end-on or ‘end-fire’ radiation from a horizontal wire.
1943 Gloss. Terms Telecomm. (B.S.I.) 66 End-fire array, a type of directive aerial-array the principal direction of radiation of which is in the direction of the array line.
1949 Electronic Engin. 21 346 A wealth of information on broadside and end fire arrays.
end game n. Chess (see quot.); also attributive and Bridge.
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1884 Horwitz in Academy 12 Apr. 256/1 The real end game consists of a position where the method can be analytically demonstrated by which the slightly superior force can win.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 4/1 A fine end-game player.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 1 June 6/3 Skill in end-game play.
1947 T. Reese Reese on Play iv. 143 (heading) End game.
1952 I. Macleod Bridge xv. 190 Bridge writing tends to concentrate on the end game.
1964 V. Nabokov Defence viii. 121 We'll simply take the endgame position at the point it was interrupted today.
end-gate n. U.S. = tail-board n. 1; also attributive and figurative.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > body > board at back
tail-board1807
tailgate1868
end-gate1873
stern-board1887
1873 Newton Kansan 15 May 2/2 An iron end gate rod was thrust easily into the excavation.
1905 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 3 Mar. Henry kept right on lamming the end-gate of the band wagon of reform with a poker.
1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights vi. 165 Two boys..tied to the feed-rack by Allens's hired man and spanked with the end-gate of his wagon.
end-gatherer n. a collector of refuse wool.
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1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 53 All end-gatherers offending against an act of the 13 Geo. c. 23..shall be deemed incorrigible rogues.
end-grain n. (attributive) (of wood) placed with the end of the grain turned outwards.
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1882 Worc. Exhib. Cat. iii. 41 The flooring is laid in end-grain sections of pine.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 88/2 End-grain wood pavements, etc.
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1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 16 You must dip your Handle-hand, and mount your end-hand a little.
end-hole n. (see quot. 1796).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] > score
fifteen1674
end-hole1796
1796 C. Jones Hoyle's Games Impr. 296 (Cribbage) It is of Advantage to the last Player to keep as close Cards as possible, in Hopes of coming in for Fifteen, a Sequence, or Pair, besides the End Hole, or Thirty-one.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 576/1 (Cribbage) The go, end hole, or last card is scored by the player who approaches most nearly to thirty-one.
end-hooping n. the hoop that binds the end of a vessel.
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a1796 R. Burns in J. Jamieson Sc. Dict. She sprung an end-hooping.
end-iron n. a movable plate in a kitchen range which serves to enlarge or contract the grate.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > border district(s)
end-landc1175
marcha1325
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commark1612
land-march1614
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Border-sidea1700
borderland1813
border-countryc1885
rimland1942
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17916 Nohht ferr þær inn an ende land Þatt wass ennon ȝehatenn.
end-leaf n. a (usually blank) leaf inserted at one or other end of a bound book.
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society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [noun] > leaf > types of leaf
title sheet1615
interleaf1741
end-paper1818
flyleaf1832
inlay1877
witness1880
end-leaf1905
blank1952
1905 F. H. Collins Author & Printer 108/1 Endleaves, the blank fly-leaves at the beginning and end of a book.
1905 F. H. Collins Author & Printer 108/1 End papers, see end leaves.
1954 N. R. Ker Pastedowns in Oxf. Bindings p. vii This method of strengthening the binding has been used since the Middle Ages, the only difference being that the endleaves then consisted of parchment instead of paper.
end-making n. conclusion, settlement.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement
forewardOE
accordc1275
covenant1297
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treatc1380
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paction1440
reconventionc1449
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bond (also band) of manrent1482
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capitulation1535
conventmenta1547
convenience1551
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negotiation1563
sacrament1563
match1569
consortship1592
after-agreementa1600
combourgeoisie1602
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comburghership1606
transaction1611
end-makingc1613
obligement1627
bare contract1641
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accompackmentc1650
rue-bargaina1657
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minute1720
tacka1758
understanding1803
meet1804
it's a go1821
deal1863
whizz1869
stand-in1870
gentlemen's agreement1880
meeting of minds1883
c1613 (c1490) in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 82 Beseching your sayd mastership..to be at the end-making.
end-measure n. a measure of length defined by the distance between points in the surfaces of the ends of a bar.
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1902 Nature 7 Aug. 350/1 The verification in 1890–7 of standard end-measures (mètres à bouts).
end moraine n. = terminal moraine n. at terminal adj. and n. Compounds 1.
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1903 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 4) II. Index 1446/2 Terminal moraines (end-moraines).
1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. xv. 374 Three types of glacial deposits—end moraine, lateral moraine, and ground moraine—may be distinguished, depending upon whether deposition took place at the end of, at the side of, or beneath an ice stream.
1960 B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. xiii. 291 The edges of former ice sheets are often marked by terminal or end moraines, which are ridges of glacial material not usually exceeding 150–200 feet in height in lowlands.
end-organ n. (see quot.).
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > touch organ > [noun]
toucha1387
end-organ1878
1878 F. J. Bell tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 42 Sensory organs are the end-organs of the sensitive nerves.
end-paper n. usually in plural, the blank leaves placed at the beginning and end of a book.
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society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [noun] > leaf > types of leaf
title sheet1615
interleaf1741
end-paper1818
flyleaf1832
inlay1877
witness1880
end-leaf1905
blank1952
1818 H. Parry Art of Bookbinding 31 Common marble paper pasted between the first and second leaf of the end-papers.
1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 94 The end-papers are..glued to the boards.
1885 W. J. E. Crane Bookbinding vii. 59 The ‘end papers’ are those blank leaves which are found at the beginning and end of every bound book.
1901 Athenæum 4 May The end-papers were a little spotted, but the general condition was splendid.
1960 Times 6 Oct. 17/4 There are endpaper maps.
end-piece n. (see quot.); a piece forming the end of a box, etc.; in watchmaking, the support for the end of a pivot.
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1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 118/1 The end-pieces, when real diamonds are used, are what are called rose-diamonds, and are procured from Holland, where they are cut.
1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. xxx. 216 A movable end-piece through which the plate passes into the holder.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 190 Wall-plates, the two-side pieces of a timber frame in a shaft... The other two pieces are the end-pieces.
end-plate n. the extreme fibres of a muscle or nerve.
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1878 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) iii. i. 393 Between the lingual fibres and the end-plates of the glossal muscular fibres.
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon End-plate, motorial, the branched, expanded, termination of a nerve fibre or one of its branches on a muscular fibre.
end-play n. Bridge any of various methods of play which (usually at about the eleventh trick) force an opponent into making a lead which will cost him a trick; hence as v. transitive.
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1931 Bridge Mag. VI. 213/1 All end plays are divided into three large groups; negative, positive and neutral.
1936 E. H. Downes (title) Squeezes coups and end plays.
1936 E. H. Downes 51 The Declarer..knows that the opponent being End-Played will be forced to make a return lead in a suit in which the Declarer holds a tenace position.
1950 G. S. Coffin (title) Endplays.
1950 G. S. Coffin p. ix Although an endplay situation usually occurs when all four hands are played down to a few cards, endplays sometimes embrace so many cards that a player is ‘endplayed’ even on the opening lead!
end-position n. Philology the position at the end of a clause or phrase.
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1928 H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng.: Pt. 1 (ed. 2) I. viii. 442 When they [sc. adverbial adjuncts] have to be thrown into prominence, they not unfrequently have front-position, or end-position.
1962 S. Stubelius in F. Behre Contrib. Eng. Syntax 198 End-position adverbials.
end-rib n. (see quot.).
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1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 37 Between the upper and under-board there are six boards, viz. two..called end-ribs.
end run n. North American (a) in American football, an attempt by the ball-carrier to run round his own end (sense 3g) and towards the goal; (b) figurative an evasive tactic, esp. in war or politics; a ploy which allows one to advance by bypassing the opposition.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > planning a course of action > plan of intended course of action
plan of campaign1780
route map1816
action plan1889
end run1902
strategy1944
game plan1957
scenario1962
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres
rush1857
punt-out1861
goal-kicking1871
safety1879
safety touchdown1879
scrimmage1880
rushing1882
safety touch1884
touchback1884
forward pass1890
run1890
blocking1891
signal1891
fake1893
onside kick1895
tandem-play1895
pass play1896
spiral1896
shift1901
end run1902
straight-arm1903
quarterback sneak1904
runback1905
roughing1906
Minnesota shift1910
quarterbacking1910
snap-back1910
pickoff1912
punt return1914
screen forward pass1915
screen pass1920
power play1921
sneak1921
passback1922
snap1922
defence1923
reverse1924
carry1927
lateral1927
stiff-arm1927
zone1927
zone defence1927
submarine charge1928
squib1929
block1931
pass rushing1933
safetying1933
trap play1933
end-around1934
straight-arming1934
trap1935
mousetrap1936
buttonhook1938
blitzing1940
hand-off1940
pitchout1946
slant1947
strike1947
draw play1948
shovel pass1948
bootleg1949
option1950
red dog1950
red-dogging1951
rollout1951
submarine1952
sleeper pass1954
draw1956
bomb1960
swing pass1960
pass rush1962
blitz1963
spearing1964
onsides kick1965
takeaway1967
quarterback sack1968
smash-mouth1968
veer1968
turn-over1969
bump-and-run1970
scramble1971
sack1972
nose tackle1975
nickel1979
pressure1981
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > evasion or subterfuge > instance of > specifically in war or politics
end run1902
1902 Record-Herald (Chicago) 28 Sept. iii. 1/4 Perkins made a fifteen-yard end run.
1920 Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser 7 Mar. 6/3 Stubbs follows with an end run for 25 yards.
1952 W. S. Churchill Second World War V. xxiv. 378 I had..always been a partisan of the ‘end run’, as the Americans call it, or ‘cat-claw’, which was my term.
1961 W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio ii. 16 An end run occurs when the forward lines clash together into immobility and the backs race round the supine mass towards the goal.
1968 Economist 17 Aug. 29/2 An ‘end run’ around to Congress, bypassing the Secretary of Defence, is the time-honoured way for the military to put pressure on the Secretary to yield on weapons and budgetary matters.
1973 Times 17 Apr. 9/1 Denouncing proposed draft legislation, Mr Humphrey said in the Senate that it was a ‘bold-faced grab’ and ‘outrageous end-run’ by the Pentagon designed to evade congressional control.
end-scraper n. Archaeology = grattoir n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > prehistoric tool > [noun] > types of
flintstonec1400
celt1748
fairy hammer1815
axe1851
flint-flake1851
stone-axe1864
flake-knife1865
scraper1865
thumb-flint1865
tool-stone1865
saddle quern1867
fabricator1872
grattoir1872
hammer-stone1872
tribrach1873
flake1875
hand-axe1878
pick1888
turtle-back1890
racloir1892
eolith1895
pebble chopper1895
palaeotalith1897
tranchet1899
point1901
pygmy flint1907
microlith1908
Gravette1911
keeled scraper1911
lissoir1911
coup de poing1912
end-scraper1915
burin1916
rostro-carinate1919
tortoise core1919
blade1921
axe-adze1925
petit tranchet1926
tournette1927
pebble tool1931
raclette1932
biface1934
cleaver1935
thumbnail scraper1937
microblade1959
linguate1966
1915 W. J. Sollas Anc. Hunters (ed. 2) 298 The grattoirs or end scrapers are generally short and rough.
1937 D. A. E. Garrod & D. M. A. Bate Stone Age Mt. Carmel I. i. iii. 32 End-scrapers.
end-shake n. a freedom of motion in a spindle at its end.
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1881 P. N. Hasluck Lathe Work 169 The face of the pulley forms the bearing to prevent the endshake.
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the world > life > death > manner of death > [noun] > fated death
end-sitha1325
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3777 Alle he [Korah, etc.] sunken ðe erðe wið-in,..Swilc endesið vn-bi-wen hauen.
end-speech n. a speech tacked on at the end, an epilogue.
end standard n. Metrology a standard of length in the form of a metal bar or block whose end faces are the standard distance apart under specified conditions; cf. line standard n. a.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > standard of length
end standard1888
line standard1888
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 478/1 Standards of length are of two types, the defining points being either at a certain part of two parallel lines engraven in one plane (a line-standard), or else points on two parallel surfaces, which can only be observed by contact (an end-standard).
1906 W. Hallock & H. T. Wade Outl. Evol. Weights & Meas. x. 223 The line standard, of course, can be used with a microscope with cross-hairs, or a micrometer microscope, much more readily than an end standard.
1975 G. Bram & C. Downs Manuf. Technol. i. 7 With few exceptions to the rule, most engineering devices depend upon end standards.
end-stone n. one of the plates of a watch-jewel supporting a pivot.
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1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 101 In most English watches all the escapement pivots run on end stones.
end-stopped adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [adjective] > having clause- and line-end coinciding
stopped1874
end-stopped1877
1877 E. Dowden Shakespere Primer iv. 39 At first..the verse is end-stopt.
end-stopping n. (of blank verse) a division of the lines, such that they end with a pause or stop.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > other breaks in verse
stop1838
diaeresis1844
end-stopping1881
1881 Athenæum 23 Apr. 557/2 Mr. Rhoades's blank verse..is distinguished..by a frequent tendency to end-stopping.
end table n. U.S. a table suitable for placing at the end of a couch or beside another piece of furniture.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > other tables
dormant tablec1405
set board1512
chair-table1558
oyster table1559
brushing-table1575
stand board1580
table-chair1671
reading table1749
worktable1762
centre table1775
pier table1778
loo-table1789
screen table1793
social table1793
octoped1822
claw-table1832
bench table1838
mould1842
end table1851
pedestal table1858
picnic table1866
examining table1877
silver table1897
changing table1917
rent table1919
capstan table1927
conference table1928
tricoteuse1960
Parsons1962
overflow table1973
butcher's block1976
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 206 Circular, center, card, and end tables.
end-time n. the end of a period of time; spec. the end of the world.
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1917 J. H. McConkey End of Age 28 Similar to this will be the conditions in the end-time.
1953 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 6 162 We believe that..although the full pattern and purpose belongs to the End-Time, reflections of it can be mirrored in the corporate meetings of the Church.
end-use n. the final specific use to which a product is put.
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1953 P. C. Berg Dict. New Words 74/2 End-use.
1958 Times Rev. Industry Feb. 11/1 Forecasts..are not made simpler by the ease with which one kind of fuel can be substituted for another in many of the end-uses.
end-user n.
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1963 Economist 16 Feb. 627/2 Esso policy of not selling chemicals to the end-user.
end-value n. Mathematics (see quot.).
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 549/2 The numbers a and b which limit the interval are usually called the ‘lower and upper limits’. We shall call them the ‘nearer and further end-values’.
end-wool n. refuse wool.
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1848 9th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. App. ii. 111 in Parl. Papers 1847–8 XXXVIII. 9 The clift wool to be kept by itself, and the endwool by itself.
end zone n. North American (a) in football (see quots. 1916, 1935); (b) in ice hockey, either of two sections of the rink which extend to the goal line from the neutral zone.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > scoring > field of play > specific part
tape1867
goalpost1882
end zone1916
red zone1972
1916 J. H. Bancroft Handbk. Athletic Games 129 End-zone, ten-yard territory between the end line and the goal line.
1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 528/1 American rugby... The playing field is..divided into the field of play and end zones. These are, respectively, 100 yds. and 10 yds. each in length.
1961 F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 245/1 Face-off spot…in the end zone, they are 15 ft. from goal line.
1963 Dict. Canadian English (Intermediate) 292/2 End zone. 1. in rugby football, the part of the field between each goal line and the corresponding end of the field. 2. in hockey, the ice between each blue line and the corresponding end of the rink.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 July 32/5 Then Gabler..threw a perfect one [sc. pass] into the end zone to Profit.
Draft additions 1993
end-note n. originally U.S. any of a number of explanatory notes or references placed at the end of a book, article, etc. (usually in plural); cf. footnote n.
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society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > notes or references placed at end of book
end-note1950
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > comment or note > end-note
end-note1950
1950 C. G. Gaum et al. Report Writing (ed. 3) 163 A few reports..substitute end-notes for footnotes, placing all notes in one place at the end of the report.
1968 Listener 13 June 779/3 It is characteristic of his..reliability..that 40-odd pages out of 290 should be given up to appendices, endnotes, bibliography and index, while footnotes probably total another 20 pages.
1986 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 July 781/3 Schmidt-Häuer's sources have to be taken on trust. There is not a footnote or endnote in sight.
Draft additions August 2007
end-blown adj. (a) (of an egg) hollowed out by blowing through one of a pair of small holes made at each end (now rare); (b) Music designating a flute or other wind instrument with the mouth aperture at the end; cf. side-blown adj. (a) at side n.1 Compounds 3.
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1900 Condor 2 27/2 I..used the time-honored cigar boxes to contain my scientifically (!) collected, end-blown specimens.
1907 Proc. Musical Assoc. June 173 The outline of a figure of an animal playing on a musical instrument..seems to me, judging from the position,..to be intended for an end-blown flute.
2005 R. Nidel World Music: Basics ii. 150 The duduk, an end-blown, double-reed, recorder-type instrument made from apricot wood, is the national musical symbol of Armenia.
Draft additions April 2011
end key n. Computing (usually with capital initial) a key on a keyboard which is typically used to move to the bottom of a document being viewed, or to move the cursor to the end of a line of editable text; cf. home key n. 3.
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1964 T. R. Allen & J. E. Foote in AFIPS Conf. Proc., Fall Joint Computer Conf. 26 390/2 To ‘turn the page’ the operator depresses the ‘,’ key and to terminate the subroutine he hits the END key.
1983 InfoWorld 7 Mar. 52/6 The End key moves the cursor to the last character.
2008 Windows Vista Mag. Winter 56/3 If you are viewing a web site, pressing the End key takes you to the bottom.
Draft additions April 2011
Computing. Usually with capital initial. (The name of) the end key on a keyboard.
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1985 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 Sept. Press the period (or full stop) to ‘anchor’ the range then press ‘End’ and ‘Home’ followed by the ‘return’ key.
1993 InfoWorld 2 Aug. 82/3 It has several half-size keys, such as Page Up, Page Down, Home, End, Insert, and Delete.
2010 D. Gookin Word 2010 for Dummies iii. 37 End and Home, which move the insertion pointer to the start or end of something.
Draft additions June 2015
end-stage adj. of, relating to, or occurring in the terminal stage of a process, esp. a disease or other pathological process; designating such a stage; undergoing such a stage.
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1920 Virginia Med. Monthly Mar. 323/1 Such patients rarely consult a gynecologist until the condition responsible for this symptom [sc. abnormal uterine bleeding] has progressed to end-stage pathology.
1923 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 31 176 Magmatic end-stage emanations..produce a bewildering series of..silicification, gametization and metallic-mineralization effects.
1993 R. Shilts Conduct Unbecoming v. li. 481 By focusing only on those end-stage patients with deadly diseases, the CDC definition..missed the great bulk of the AIDS cases.
2012 Independent 14 Aug. 24/1 Doctors told Andy Goode he had end-stage cancer and should prepare to die.
Draft additions September 2018
end credits n. a list or sequence of credits shown at the end of a film or television programme; (also) the part of a film or programme during which these appear; = closing credits n. at closing adj. Additions.
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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > credits
credit1919
end credits1948
closing credits1952
credit list1958
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > accompanying text on screen > credit
credit1919
credit title1922
opening credits1931
credit list1935
title sequence1936
end credits1948
closing credits1952
credit line1984
1948 Business Screen Mag. 9 ii. 20/1 There is no advertising in any film..beyond title and end credits.
1988 R. Rayner Los Angeles without Map 47 The last thing the camera shows is fear on her face, and the end credits roll.
2003 Daily Tel. 16 Sept. i. 24/5 I couldn't have cared less..whether the fathomlessly gullible Helen was going to make it to the end credits alive.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
endv.1
/ɛnd/, U.S. /ɛnd/ I. Transitive and absolute senses.† 1. † 3. To rid (a person) of. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To carry through to the end; to finish, complete. Also (in Middle English), to perform (religious duties). Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)]
to make an endc893
afilleOE
endc975
fullOE
full-doOE
full-workOE
fullendOE
fullfremeOE
full-forthlOE
fillc1175
fulfilc1300
complec1315
asum1340
full-make1340
performa1382
finisha1400
accomplishc1405
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sumc1450
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explete?a1475
fullcome1477
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consomme1489
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perfinish1523
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consummate1530
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to run out1553
perfectionate1570
win1573
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to bring about1598
exedifya1617
to do up1654
ratifyc1720
ultimate1849
terminate1857
c975 Rushw. Gosp. John iv. 34 Þætte ic endigo werc his.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 43 Men þe on þisse liue her hare scrift. enden nalden.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 37 Gað bifore þe weoued & endið þer ouwer graces.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8310 Þis wark..mai noght thoru þi-self be don, þin sun sal end it, salamon.
1483 Cath. Angl. 114 to Ende, conficere.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 4 Graunt me þi helpe..þis werke for to ende.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. N1 He..kist the fatall knife to end his vow. View more context for this quotation
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶ When I had ended my booke,..I was..requested..to explaine something.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. i. 114 This same day Must end that worke, the Ides of March begun. View more context for this quotation
1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 16 Pray end what you began.
b. To be the end or result of.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > be caused by or result from [verb (transitive)]
comeeOE
followOE
suec1390
enda1400
ensuec1530
redound1565
to come on ——1568
to fall out upon1579
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9699 Pes endes al þat wel es wroght.
2.
a. To bring to an end, conclude, come to a termination of (an action, a speech, a period of time, one's life, etc.; formerly sometimes with infinitive as object). Often with adverb of manner or adverbial phrase, or with off, up; also const. with.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > bring to an end or conclude [verb (transitive)]
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endc1305
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out-enda1400
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do1549
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to shut up1575
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date1589
to close up1592
period1595
includea1616
apostrophate1622
to wind off1650
periodizea1657
dismiss1698
to wind up1740
to put the lid on1873
to put the tin hat on something1900
to wash up1925
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)]
i-swikec893
swikec897
atwindc1000
linOE
studegieOE
stintc1175
letc1200
stuttea1225
leavec1225
astint1250
doc1300
finec1300
blina1325
cease1330
stable1377
resta1382
ho1390
to say or cry ho1390
resta1398
astartc1400
discontinuec1425
surcease1428
to let offc1450
resista1475
finish1490
to lay a straw?a1505
to give over1526
succease1551
to put (also pack) up one's pipes1556
end1557
to stay (one's own or another's) hand1560
stick1574
stay1576
to draw bridle1577
to draw rein1577
to set down one's rest1589
overgive1592
absist1614
subsista1639
beholdc1650
unbridle1653
to knock offa1657
acquiesce1659
to set (up) one's rest1663
sista1676
stop1689
to draw rein1725
subside1734
remit1765
to let up1787
to wind (up) one's pirna1835
to cry crack1888
to shut off1896
to pack in1906
to close down1921
to pack up1925
to sign off1929
c1305 Pilate 259 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) Þus pilatus endede his lyf.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 47 Eilred at London endid his life.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 110 Huet may þe zone betere acsy to his uader: þanne bread wyþoute more uor þane day to endy?
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 10487 Whenne she had endede hir preyere She pleyned efte on þis manere.
1483 Cath. Angl. 115 It is Endit, explicit.
1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes f. 229v/2 We neuer cease to behold them, nor yet end to bewayle them.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. 4 Esdras vii. 1 When I had ended to speake these wordes.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 88 Not then the drudging Hind his Labour ends . View more context for this quotation
1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 30 May 1/2 He has ended his Discourse with a Prayer.
1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 20 Jan. in Wks. (1955) VII. 261 We ended the day with music at S: Agnes.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Amphion in Poems (new ed.) II. 167 Ere his song was ended.
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 343 I find that I have only now the power of ending this work, not of ‘concluding’ it.
1862 J. Grant Capt. of Guard xxxix. 282 He ended his life in misery.
1884 G. Allen Philistia III. 250 Capital sentence to end off one's speech with.
1926 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Aug. 109 Those things you use to divide off words and end up sentences with.
b. absol.; esp. with reference to speech: To finish, conclude.
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the world > action or operation > completing > complete or conclude action [verb (intransitive)]
enda1340
finisha1400
conclude1526
to get through1589
get1594
dispatcha1616
to shut up1626
to wind up1631
finale1797
to top off1836
to top up1837
through1894
to roll up1963
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxvi[i]. 15 End as þou has bygunen.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 5459 Whenne he endide of his sawe his sones he blessed on a rawe.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xvi. 290 I will therefore adde somewhat concerning the disgrace which commeth vnto mariage,..and so end.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 30 I know it wel sir, you alwaies end ere you begin. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 106 He ended frowning, and his look denounc'd Desperate revenge. View more context for this quotation
a1704 T. Brown Satyr against Woman in Wks. (1707) I. i. 85 Quite tired of the Nauseous Theme I end.
1879 F. J. Furnivall Rep. Early Eng. Text Soc. 24 To end, the Society wants more money.
1891 N.E.D. at End Mod. I shall end with a motion.
c. Colloquial phrase to end it (all), to commit suicide.
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the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [verb (intransitive)]
to commit suicide1712
suicide1840
to end it (all)1911
to take one's (own) life1920
to drink the Kool-Aid1978
1911 Maclean's Sept. 172/1 Sometimes I wonder if it's all worth while; sometimes I'm half inclined to end it.
1925 F. Harris My Life & Loves IV. iv. 90 This is the end; the sooner I put a bullet through my head the better... I took up the rifle to end it all when suddenly my eye caught sight of the..tins of sardines.
d. to end or mend: see to mend or end (mend v. Phrases 1).
ΚΠ
a1670 S. Collins Present State Russia (1671) ii. 9 It is a strange chastisement to kill, seeing the design hereof was never intended to end people, but to mend them.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. v. 177 My fate calls me elsewhere, to scenes where I shall end it or mend it.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > rescue or deliver (from) [verb (transitive)] > deliver or free from
aleseOE
redd1488
shut?a1500
sever?1507
rid?1526
enda1592
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iv. sig. H2 What may I do to end me of these doubts?
4. † b. To make an end of (a person); to kill. Obsolete.
a. To put an end to, cause to cease, abrogate, destroy; formerly also to dissolve (a parliament).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
undoc950
shendOE
forfarea1000
endc1000
to do awayOE
aquenchc1175
slayc1175
slayc1175
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tinea1300
to-spilla1300
batec1300
bleschea1325
honisha1325
leesea1325
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corrumpa1340
destroy1340
to put awayc1350
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aneantizec1384
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to put outa1398
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shelfc1425
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downthringc1430
kill1435
poisonc1450
defeat1474
perish1509
to blow away1523
abrogatea1529
to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
wipea1538
extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
braina1616
stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to
astintc700
stathea1200
atstuntc1220
to put an end toa1300
to set end ofa1300
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stanch1338
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to put awayc1350
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finisha1375
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achievea1393
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surceasec1435
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stay1525
abrogatea1529
suppressa1538
to set in or at stay1538
to make stay of1572
depart1579
check1581
intercept1581
to give a stop toa1586
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date1589
period1595
astayc1600
nip1600
to break off1607
snape1631
sist1635
to make (a) stop of1638
supersede1643
assopiatea1649
periodizea1657
unbusya1657
to put a stop to1679
to give the holla to1681
to run down1697
cessate1701
end1737
to choke off1818
stopper1821
punctuate1825
to put a stopper on1828
to take off ——1845
still1850
to put the lid on1873
on the fritz1900
to close down1903
to put the fritz on something1910
to put the bee on1918
switch1921
to blow the whistle on1934
c1000 Ags. Ps. ix. 6 Ða hi hit endian sceoldan.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 19797 Þeȝȝ unnderrstodenn wel. Þatt..teȝȝre laȝhe all endedd ben. Þurrh cristess newe lare.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 214 At þis parlement..was it ent, aliens to auance.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos viii. 36 The swerde..ended in that hour hir lyf.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 647 The king dissolued his parliament, which was the laste parliament that euer he ended.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. i. 37 If I were yong againe, the sword should end it. View more context for this quotation
1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 4 End all dispute; and fix the year precise.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. iv. 232 That merciful deed For ever ends thy suffering.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 24 The desperate crew..Resolve at once to end the audacious strife.
1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. (1878) 1st Ser. 200 To talk of France seeing good to end Protestantism in a night.
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the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]
swevec725
quelmeOE
slayc893
quelleOE
of-falleOE
ofslayeOE
aquellc950
ayeteeOE
spillc950
beliveOE
to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE
fordoa1000
forfarea1000
asweveOE
drepeOE
forleseOE
martyrOE
to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE
bringc1175
off-quellc1175
quenchc1175
forswelta1225
adeadc1225
to bring of daysc1225
to do to deathc1225
to draw (a person) to deathc1225
murder?c1225
aslayc1275
forferec1275
to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275
martyrc1300
strangle1303
destroya1325
misdoa1325
killc1330
tailc1330
to take the life of (also fro)c1330
enda1340
to kill to (into, unto) death1362
brittena1375
deadc1374
to ding to deathc1380
mortifya1382
perisha1387
to dight to death1393
colea1400
fella1400
kill out (away, down, up)a1400
to slay up or downa1400
swelta1400
voida1400
deliverc1400
starvec1425
jugylc1440
morta1450
to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480
to put offc1485
to-slaya1500
to make away with1502
to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503
rida1513
to put downa1525
to hang out of the way1528
dispatch?1529
strikea1535
occidea1538
to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540
to fling to deathc1540
extinct1548
to make out of the way1551
to fet offa1556
to cut offc1565
to make away?1566
occise1575
spoil1578
senda1586
to put away1588
exanimate1593
unmortalize1593
speed1594
unlive1594
execute1597
dislive1598
extinguish1598
to lay along1599
to make hence1605
conclude1606
kill off1607
disanimate1609
feeze1609
to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611
to kill dead1615
transporta1616
spatch1616
to take off1619
mactate1623
to make meat of1632
to turn up1642
inanimate1647
pop1649
enecate1657
cadaverate1658
expedite1678
to make dog's meat of1679
to make mincemeat of1709
sluice1749
finisha1753
royna1770
still1778
do1780
deaden1807
deathifyc1810
to lay out1829
cool1833
to use up1833
puckeroo1840
to rub out1840
cadaverize1841
to put under the sod1847
suicide1852
outkill1860
to fix1875
to put under1879
corpse1884
stiffen1888
tip1891
to do away with1899
to take out1900
stretch1902
red-light1906
huff1919
to knock rotten1919
skittle1919
liquidate1924
clip1927
to set over1931
creasea1935
ice1941
lose1942
to put to sleep1942
zap1942
hit1955
to take down1967
wax1968
trash1973
ace1975
a1340 R. Rolle Cant. in Psalter 497 Ffra morne til eueyn þou sall end me.
1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 1064 Hit is riht þat þe rink be reufully ended.
a1400–50 Alexander 453 All his enmys in þat erd he endid in a stounde.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iii. 9 This sword hath ended him. View more context for this quotation
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 300 The Pope mingled powder with Gemens Sugar, which should not End him presently, but Waste him by little and little.
1639 J. Fletcher et al. Bloody Brother iv. iii. sig. H1v Power enough..To end the murtherer.
II. Intransitive senses.
5.
a. Of a period of time, action, continuous state, series, book, chapter, etc.: To come to an end. Also colloquial to end up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (intransitive)] > end or cease to exist
tirec725
endOE
forfareOE
goc1175
fleec1200
to wend awayc1225
diea1240
to-melta1240
to pass awaya1325
flit1340
perishc1350
vanisha1375
decorre1377
cease1382
dispend1393
failc1400
overshakec1425
surcease1439
adrawc1450
fall1523
decease1538
define1562
fleet1576
expire1595
evanish1597
extinguish1599
extirp1606
disappear1623
evaporatea1631
trans-shift1648
annihilate1656
exolve1657
cancela1667
to pass off1699
to burn out, forth1832
spark1845
to die out1853
to come, go, etc. by the board1859
sputter1964
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > be at an end [verb (intransitive)] > come to an end, terminate, or expire
to run outeOE
endOE
stintc1275
slakea1300
overpassc1350
determinec1374
overruna1393
dispend1393
failc1399
missa1400
to wear out, forth1412
stanchc1420
to come outa1450
terminea1450
expire?c1450
finish1490
conclude1593
upclose1603
terminate1608
to shut up1609
to wind off1650
stop1733
to fall in1771
close1821
to blaze out1884
outgive1893
to play out1964
OE Guthlac A 50 Forþen se mon ne þearf to pisse worulde wyrpe gehycgan..ærþon endien ealle gesceafte ða he gesette on siex dagum, ða nu under heofonum hadas cennað, micle ond mæte.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6514 Her endeþþ nu þiss goddspell þuss.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 166 Forð endede ðat fifte nigt.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1770 When his lif sal here ende, He what never whider he sal wende.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 540 Þis bitter bale botlesse wol hende!
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. ii. 346 Whan meuynge fayllyth thenne tyme endyth.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7840 Þat eild bigan at abraham, It endes her in godds nam.
1486 Bk. St. Albans D iij a Here endyth the proceis of hawkyng.
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) Prol. f. ii Thus endeth the prologue. And here after foloweth the fyrst boke.
1606 S. Daniel Queenes Arcadia iv. iv. sig. H4 All extremities must mend, or end.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. i. 27 All's well that ends well yet. View more context for this quotation
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads i. 289 Thus in disorder the Assembly ends.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 17 The base degenerate Iron-off-spring ends.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 223 But that this well-disputed game may end, Sound forth my Brayers.
1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms iv. 654 To-day our woes can never end.
1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire iv. 51 The line of Charles the Great ended in a.d. 911.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 305 For thinking how all stories end with this.
1874 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David IV. Ps. cii. Introd. It ends up right gloriously with calm confidence for the future.
1891 N.E.D. at End Mod. The quarter ending June 24.
b. To issue or result in.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > end in
to stand to ——OE
turnc1175
end?c1225
to come to ——c1475
sort1548
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 81 Þe frakele worldes froure..schal enden eaure insar & in soreȝe.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 194 Couetous þere come knightes full ofte, And endit in auerys to ay lastand sorowe.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. vii. 30 No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 33 Sobbing the Leaves of the Plant..ends in scorching.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 10. ⁋11 There is a contagious Sickness, which, it is feared, will end in a Pestilence.
1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 380 The controversy..ended in both parties admitting, etc.
1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings x. 204 A life of godliness ends in a saintly death.
1885 Manch. Examiner 6 July 4/7 The cricket match..ended in a draw.
c. Of persons, Const. in, or by, with gerund: To come ultimately to (do something).
ΚΠ
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 101 He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will..end in loving himself better than all.
6. To die. rare in modern use. Also to end up (slang).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8348 Affterr þatt tatt herode king. Wass endedd inn hiss sinne.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 370 Steuene..suþþe was kyng of Engelond, & endede myd ssame.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 6724 Þe beest shal wiþ stonyng ende.
a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 1389 I yeve..To thy doughter all my lond, Yf that I end there.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 341 Farewell friends: thus Thysby ends . View more context for this quotation
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. x. 145 A cannon-ball smites the life out of him, and he ended here.
1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines ii. 32 We should only end up like my poor friend Silvestre.
7. Of a portion of space, material object, treatise, etc.: To terminate, have its end or extremity.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > extend in space [verb (intransitive)] > end or terminate
comea1398
end1611
stop1887
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Aboutir en pointe, to end sharpe, or pointed.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 424 The promontory which ends in the Lizard.
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (1885) vi. v. 890 It [the glacier] ended off upon the land.
1891 N.E.D. at End Mod. His property ends at the fifth milestone. An iron rod ending in a sharp point. The plateau ends abruptly in a precipice.
III. Modern senses derived from the noun.
8. transitive. To furnish with an end of a particular kind, for protection or ornament.
ΚΠ
1889 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) To end a cane with an iron ferrule.
9. To put up on end; to upend.
ΚΠ
1889 Cent. Dict. End..to set on end; set upright.
1890 Cent. Mag. Aug. 617/1 We ended-up an old plank..against the twelve-foot brick wall.
1890 J. Service Thir Notandums x. 72 There's aye a wheen toom barrels endit up and waiting to be filled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
endv.2
Obsolete exc. dialect.
transitive. To put (corn, hay, etc.) into (a barn, stack, etc.); to ‘get in’. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)]
gatherc950
getc1250
harvestc1400
in?1407
win1487
ingatherc1575
crop1602
enda1616
to get in1699
to get up1764
secure1842
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. vi. 36 I..holpe to reape the Fame Which he did end all his. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 35 His shadowy Flale hath thresh'd the Corn That ten day-labourers could not end.
Derivatives
ˈended adj.
ΚΠ
1858 Hereford Times 23 Jan. in A. Dyce Wks. Shakespeare (ed. 2) VI. v. vi. 37 Three well-ended hay-ricks..a rick of well-ended hay.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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