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Hinder end, n. Also: hynder end(e, hinderhend; indirend. [e.m.E. hynder ende (1523). In later use Sc. and north. Eng. dial. Cf. Hender end n.]

1. The later or final part.(1) 1488 Treasurer's Accounts I. 106.
To Peter Falconer for the red of the hynder ende of ȝoug Kere Gardis costis 1528–9 Acts Lords of Council XXXIX. 74.
[A summons being] tabulit in the hinder end of the privelegit table 1585 James VI Ess. 21.
In the hinder end of this booke 1601 Rep. Mar & Kellie MSS. 48.
It appeiris in the hinderend of your letter1638 Select Biographies II. 18.
It is in the hinder end of the 52 Isai.(2) 1528 Bk. Carlaverock II. 485.
The hinder end of September ȝeirlie 1558-66 Knox I. 136.
In the hynder end of … the Holy dayis of Yule 1588 Misc. Maitl. C. II. 356.
The hinderend of the moneth a1605 Montg. Flyt. 274.
In the hinder end of haruest, on Alhallow euen 1592 Warrender P. II. 197.
The army suld haif cum heir in the hynderend of this present yeir 1641 Baillie I. 289.
The hinder-end of December1649 Select Biographies I. 405.
Put not your accounts to the hinder end of the day as I did foolishly1658 Dunferm. Kirk S. 51.
In the hinder end of harvest last

2. The end; an ending.1456 Hay I. 295/16.
Ever it befallis thame foule at the hynder enda1568 Bannatyne MS 93 a/58.
Herkin to the indirend1570-3 Bann. Trans. 124.
We gangand but one man behind ane vther to the hinder end a1578 Pitsc. I. 210/13.
Wickit persouns quhilk brocht him at the hinderhend to mischeif a1598 Ferg. Prov. 7.
Falshood made never a fair hinder end1638 Henderson Serm. 131.
Unbelief ... makes evermore a foul hinderendc 1665 Select Biographies I. 269.
Beware of the witch world that will make a witche's hinder end 1696 D. Williamson Scotland's Sin, Danger, and Duty (1720) 33.
There have been not a few such devils among us ... who have ... made a black hinder-end