end sb. (some obs. or unusual phrases are given below; see also AN-END, LATTER END)
1.
extremity,
extreme part; “at the arm's
end,” at arm's length AYL. II. vi. 10; “at the stave's end”
Tw.N. V. i. 295.
2.
pl. fragments
Ado I. i. 298
“old ends,”
R3 I. iii. 337
“odd old ends”
(Qq “old odd
ends”).
3.
conclusion, close;
“an ,” no more All'sW. II. ii. 69,
Cor. V. iii. 171; “and there an ,” this shall be
the end, no more Gent. I. iii.
65, R2 V. i. 69, Mac. III. iv. 80; “at an ,” concluded,
exhausted LLL. V. ii. 431, 3H6 III. ii. 81; “for an ,” to cut the
matter short Cor. II. i.
263; “have (an) ,” be
finished, completed, concluded Lr. V. i. 45, Ant. I. ii. 99, Sonn. xcii. 6; so “drew toward ” (Ff) R3 III. vii. 20 (Qq1 2 4
“grew to an end”).
4.
death, destruction;
“be the end” (of
a person) 2H4 IV. iv. 130, R3 II. i. 15; “take his end,” meet his
death 2H6 I. iv. 36.
5.
“to as much ,” to as much
purpose H8 I. i. 171; “is the end of,” is at
the ‘bottom’ of H8 II. i. 40.
