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End, Ende, v.¹ Also: hend. [ME. end, ende(n, early endien, OE. endian.]

I. tr. 1. To bring to an end or conclusion. 1375 Barb. xvii. 933.
In the flour of his ȝoutheid Scho endit all his douchty deid c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1308.
And so hys spekyng Vlixes Endyt c1420 Wynt. viii. 2620.
The Scottis men thare made the chas, Swa that daywerk endyt wes 1456 Hay I. 231/10.
The were … was begonnyn or I was a barne and ȝit is nocht all endit a1500 Henr. Orph. 184.
Quhen endit was the sangis lamentable, He tuke his harp 1501 Acts Lords of Council II. 477.
This mater was endit be arbitry c1500-c1512 Dunb. iv. 67.
Schir Gilbert Hay endit has he c1500-c1512 Ib. lxvi. 7.
My hard fortoun wer endit than 1513 Doug. iv. Prol. 7.
A fenȝeit faint plesance, Continewit in lust, and endyt with pennance c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 1253.
Be he had endit this word He … put his aucht men in array a1578 Pitsc. I. 1/4.
Maister Hector Boes and maister Johne Ballentyne quha endit thair cronickill at the slauchter of king James the first 1633 Dundonald Par. Rec. 370.
He filled to them bot ane choppin of aile … befor the bell was endit

b. To complete the doing or making of. c1420 Wynt. v. 3529.
[Thai] wers sa efftyr wers suld say Quhill endyt all the Psalme had thai c1420 Ib. vii. 3370.
Hys kyrk he endyd cathedyrale 1438 Lennox Mun. 67.
Quhyll the forsayd matrimone be fullyly complet and endyt a1500 Prestis of Peblis 62.
The thing begwn is the sonere endit 1513 Doug. 912/2.
Heir is endyt the lang desparyt wark c1552 Lynd. Mon. 707.
Quhen heuin and erth and thare contentis Wer endit a1598 Ferg. Prov. (1641) 5 b.
Better never begun nor never endit

c. To conclude or settle (a matter). 1474 Acts Lords Auditors 35.
It is appointit and finaly accordit and endit betuix Jahn countass of Douglas … and Johne Dempstare [etc.] 1490 Lennox Mun. 134.
It is … fynaly endit betuix a nobile … lorde, … and [etc.] 1597 Red Bk. Menteith II. 316.
It is appountuat, aggreit, bandit and finalie endit

d. To come to the end of (a book). 1560 Rolland Seven Sages Prol. 73.
This lytill quair quhen thay had red and endit, Sum said that hard, thay greitlie it commendit

2. With furth or out: To bring to completion. 1562 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 133.
The … maister of wark … to end furth the hous in the west end of the kirk a1578 Pitsc. I. 234/31.
He … bad this Dutchman lyght frome his horse and end out the matter 1588 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 519.
The twa Flemyng wobsters … to depesche and end owt all the nychtbouris wark quhilk thai haif in thair hand 1589 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. viii. 105.
3 vnce of sarge passementis to end out the goune 1627 Master of Works Accounts XIX. 33 b.
To Robert Spalding for helping the comptar … to dispatche and end out thir bookes

II. intr. 3. To come to an end; to cease. c1420 Wynt. iii. 612.
Swa endyt his iniquite 1456 Hay I. 69/6.
Thair jurisdictioun began with force and crueltee, and endit rycht sa soroufully c1420 Ratis Raving 536.
Quhar euer that vertew has repar, It helpis-weill and endis fair 1492 Myll Spectakle of Luf 272/32.
Here endis the proloug c1515 Asloan MS I. 249/19.
The batell … endit neuer till the last distructon of the Pictis a1538 Abell 6* a.
Hage fyrst hendit in Noy c1568 Lauder Minor P. i. 589.
All wrachis wrak thus endis, to conclude 1584 Dysart Rec. 25.
[About the] first end of August, the pest endit 1622-6 Bisset II. 187/7.
My epistoll … begynnand fol. 245. and endand fol. 292

b. Of a river: To terminate. c1515 Asloan MS I. 169/9.
A ryvere … that rynnis throw Ethiope … and endis [in] the Mediterane 1596 Dalr. I. 15/8.
The Watir of Dune … endes nocht far frome the toune

4. Of persons: To come to the end of life or one's career. Also of an animal. c1420 Wynt. ii. 121.
All thus qwhen scho endyt was, Hyr swne succedyt c1420 Ib. viii. 5220.
Off ane hurt endyt Jhone the Hay ?1438 Alex. ii. 72.
At Gaderis endit hes that day The best on ground that euer was borne c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vii. 218.
Mony Craufurd sa endyt in that steid a1500 Golagros and Gawane 734.
We sal evin that is od, or end in the pane 1513 Doug. xi. iv. 68.
Weill lykyt me that he had endyt syne c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2850.
Thocht he had lang prosperitie, He endit with miseretie 1583 Sempill Sat. P. xlv. 282.
Scho grew pure, and so scho endit, And left hir malisone … To Lowrie 1622-6 Bisset I. 63/34.
This crowell tirran maist tragicallie endit 1661 Black Sc. Witches 41.
That the horse sould either end or mend

5. a. To settle, come to an agreement. 1493 Antiq. Aberd. & B. II. 213.
The saydis assysowris may … decern, end, and conclud apone the … boundis and devisis of the saidis landis 1585 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 411.
Henrie Nesbet, bailyie … to … end with Maister Dauid Landellis, mylne wricht, … in bigging of the foure new mylnis 1647 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 116.
The bailyies … to meit this day and to end with the cleanseris

b. To cease writing or narrating; to conclude. c1450-2 Howlat 580.
It suld ws occupy all day; tharfor I end heir 1622 Haddington Corr. 140.
Craifing your lordships pardoune I am so langsume, I end

c. To aim at, seek as a result. 1652 Wariston's Diary, etc. 119.
Quhair he can have ane full surtie for quhat he ends for