End

n. [A-S. ende, O. Sax. endi, D. einde, eind, Icel. endir, endi, Sw. ände, ända, Dan. ende, O. H. Ger. enti, N. H. Ger. ende, Goth. andeis, Skr. anta.]

1. The extreme or last portion; the concluding part; the termination; close; extremity; finality; limit; as, the end of a line, of a road, or of a hall; the end of a year, a period, a discourse, and the like.
2. The conclusion; effect following the cause, and terminating its action; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; consequence. “The end of those things is death.” Rom. vi. 21.

My guilt be on my head, and there's an end. Shak. 3. Termination of being or of happiness; hence, destruction; extermination; and thus, that which causes destruction or death. “The end of all flesh is come.” Gen. vi. 13. Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Pope. Confound your falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. Shak. 4. The object aimed at in any effort; considered as the close and effect of exertion; designed or desired result; purpose in view; aim; drift; as, the end that prompts to labor; private ends; public ends. Losing her, the end of living lose. Dryden. When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end. Coleridge. 5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; as, odds and ends. I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. Shak. An end, corrupted from on end, upright, erect. “Her fair locks upstand stiff an end.” Spenser.—End for end, one end for the other; in reversed order.—Ends of the earth, remotest regions of the earth.—To put an end to, to destroy.