endiablement 
endiablementt, . [< endiable + -merit.] Dia- 
bolical possession. Davies. [Rare.] 
There was a terrible rage of faces made at him, as if an 
'u'tia j >[>'ineiit had possessed them all. 
Roger North, Examen, p. 608. 
endiaper (en-di'a-per), T. t. [< en-l + diaper.] 
To decorate witli or as with a diaper pattern; 
variegate. 
Who views the troubled bosome of the niaine 
Endiapred with cole-blacke porpesies. 
Claudius Tiberius Nero, sig. G, 2. 
endictt, endictmentt, etc. Obsolete forms of 
indict, etc. 
ending (en'ding), . [<ME. ending, -yng, -ung, 
< AS. end/tnf/, verbal n. of eiidian, end : see end, 
i'.] 1. The act of bringing or coming to an 
end ; termination, as of life ; conclusion. 
The king is not bound to answer the particular endings 
of his soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of his 
servant ; for they purpose not their death when they pur- 
pose their services. SAaifc., Hell. V., iv. 1. 
Much adoe is made about the beginning and ending of 
Daniels weekes. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 356. 
2. In gram., the terminating syllable or letter 
of a word ; the termination, whether of declen- 
sion, of conjugation, or of derivation. 
ending-dayt, . [ME. endyng-day. Cf. end- 
day.'] The day of death. 
To inyn endyng-day. Chaucer, Complaint of Venus, 1. 55. 
endirkt, v. t. Same as endark. 
end-iron (end'i'ern), n. [< end + iron. In 
the second sense confused with andiron.] 1. 
One of two movable iron cheeks or plates used 
in cooking-stoves to enlarge or contract the 
grate at pleasure. 2. One of two short, thick 
bars of iron used to hold the ends of the sticks 
in a wood-fire built on a hearth. The end-irons are 
generally movable, and can be brought more or less near 
at will. They differ from fire-dogs or andirons in lying flat 
upon the hearth. They are much used in the south of 
Europe. 
endiront, An obsolete form of andiron. 
enditet (en-dlf ), v. t. An obsolete form of indite. 
enditert (en-di'ter), n. An obsolete form of in- 
diter. 
endive (en'div), . [< ME. endyve = D. andij- 
vie = G. Dan. endivie = Sw. endivia, < OF. en- 
dire, F. endive = Sp. endibia, formerly endiiia 
= Pr. Pg. It. endii'iu, < ML. intiba, fern, sing., 
L. intHius, intubus, intybus, masc., intibum, in- 
ti/bum, neut., < Gr. *evrvfov, endive. Cf. Ar. 
hindiba, appar. of European origin.] A plant, 
Cichorium Endiria, of the natural order Com- 
posite, distinguished from the chicory, C. In- 
tybus, by its annual root, much longer unequal 
pappus, and less bitter taste. It is probably iden- 
tical with C. pumilum, a wild species common throughout 
the Mediterranean region ; but it has long been in culti- 
vation, and is in common use as a salad. 
Endive, or succory, is of several sorts : as the white, the 
green, and the curled. Mortimer, Husbandry. 
endless (eud'les), a. [< ME. endeles, < AS. 
endeleds (= OS. endilos = D. eindeloos = G. 
cndlos = Dan. endelos = Sw. dndelos), < ende, 
end, + -leas, -less.] 1. Not having a termina- 
tion; continuing without end, really or appa- 
rently ; having no limit or conclusion : as, end- 
less progression ; endless bliss ; the endless pur- 
suit of an object. 
My sone, God of his endeles goodnesse 
Walled a tonge with teeth, and lippes eke, 
For man sholde him avyse what he speke. 
Chaucer, Manciple's Tale, 1. 218. 
Let endlesse Peace your steadfast hearts accord. 
Spenser, Prothalamion, 1. 102. 
The endless islands which we have seen along the north- 
ern part of the Dalmatian shore, bare and uninhabited 
rocks as many of them are, are without history. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 190. 
It is impossible to conceive a limit to the extent of mat- 
ter in the universe ; and therefore science points rather 
to an endless progress, through an endless space, of action 
involving the transformation of potential energy into 
palpable motion, and thence into heat, than to a single 
finite mechanism, running down like a clock, and stop- 
ping for ever. Thomson and Tail, Nat. Phil., I. ii., App. E. 
2. Not having ends ; returning upon itself so 
as to exhibit neither beginning nor end: as, an 
endless belt or chain; a circular race-course is 
endless. 3. Perpetually recurring ; intermina- 
ble; incessant; continual: as, endless praise; 
endless clamor. 
If singing breath or echoing chord 
To every hidden pang were given, 
What emlless melodies were poured, 
As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven ! 
O. W. Holmes, The Voiceless. 
4f. Without object, purpose, or use. 
Nothing was more endless than the common method of 
comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particu- 
lar passages in them. Pope, Pref. to Iliad 
Endless Screw and Wheel. 
1920 
5f. Without profitable conclusion ; fruitless. 
All loves are endless. Beau, and Fl. 
Endless belt, cable, chain, etc., one made without 
detached ends, or with its ends joined together, so as to 
pass continuously over two 
wheels at a greater or less 
distance from each other. 
Endless saw. Sameasiwnd- 
saw. Endless screw, a me- 
chanical arrangement con- 
sisting of a screw the thread 
of which gears into a wheel 
with skew teeth, the obli- 
quity corresponding to the e 
angle of pitch of the screw. 
It Is generally used as a 
means of producing slow 
motion in the adjustments 
of machines, moving the 
valve-gear of marine engines 
by hand, etc., rather than 
for the transmission of any 
great amount of power. Also 
called perpetual screw. =Syn. 1. Eternal, everlasting, 
perpetual, unceasing, imperishable, uninterrupted, bound- 
less, immeasurable, unlimited. 
endlessly (end'les-li), adv. In an endless man- 
ner; without end or termination. 
From glooming shadows of eternal night, 
Shut up in darkness endlessly to dwell. 
Drayton, Pierce Gaveston. 
endlessness (end'les-nes), n. [< ME. endeles- 
nes, < AS. endeledsnes, < endeleds, endless, + 
-nes, -ness.] The character of being endless ; 
extension without end or limit ; perpetuity ; 
endless duration. Donne. 
endlevet, endlevent, a. and n. Obsolete (Mid- 
dle English) forms of eleven. 
endlichite (end'lik-it), . [After Dr. F. M. 
Endlich.] An arsenic-vanadate of lead, inter- 
mediate between mimetite and vanadinite, 
found in New Mexico. 
endlongt (end'long), prep, and adv. [Early mod. 
E. also endelong and endalong (as if < end + 
long or along), < ME. endelonge, orig. nndlong, 
< AS. andlang, > E. along : see along 1 .] I. prep. 
Along; lengthwise of; from end to end of. 
This lady rometh . . . endelonge the stronde. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1498. 
And as thay went endlande [read endlange] this revere, 
abowte the viij houre of the day thay come tille a castelle 
thatstode ill a littille ile in this forsaid ryvere. 
MS. Lincoln, A. i. 17, fol. 27. (Uallimll.) 
And so he went endelonge the Cloyster there we sat at 
ye table and dalt to euery Pylgryme as he passed a pap wt 
relyques of ye holy place aboute Jherusale. 
Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 39. 
Sir Cuthbert Ratcliff, with divers of the most wise bor- 
derers, devised a wateh to be set from sunset to sunrise at 
all passages and fords endalong all the middle marches 
over against North Tynedale and Redesdale. 
Hodgson, quoted in Ribton-Turner's Vagrants and 
[Vagrancy, p. 86. 
II. adv. 1. Along; lengthwise. 
The enemies . . . were within the towne by their 
trenches both endlong and ouerthwart. 
Ilakluyt's Voyages, II. 89. 
2. Continuously ; from end to end. 
So takes in hond 
To seeke her endlong both by sea and lond. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. x. 19. 
endlyt, a. [(= MHG. endelich, endlich, Gr. end- 
lich, final) < end + -lyl.] Final. 
An endly or flnall processe of peace by authoritie. 
Hakluyts Voyages, I. 206. 
endlyt, adv. [< ME. endely (= MHG. endeliche, 
endliche, G. endlich), finally; < end + -ly 2 .] 
Finally. 
Pees shalle be whereas now trouble is, 
After this lyfe endely in blys. 
MS. Harl., 3869. (Hallimll.) 
end-man (end'man), n. 1. A man at one end 
of a row or line ; hence, an extremist ; one who 
takes the most advanced view of anything. 
A very long series of resolutions, expressing the senti- 
ments of a few end men on most of the open questions in 
the broad sphere of modern life, were approved. 
Science, IV. 113. 
Specifically 2. In minstrel-troupes, a man 
who sits at an end of the semicircle of perform- 
ers during the opening part of the entertain- 
ment. In the early days of negro minstrelsy each troupe 
had two end-men, of whom one played the tambourine 
and the other the clappers, or bones, and both alternately 
cracked jokes with the middle-man and told funny stories 
after each song sung by one of the company. The larger 
troupes have since had two, and sometimes four, of each 
class of end-men. 
endmost (end'most), a. superl. [< end + -most.] 
Situated at the very end ; furthest. 
endo- (en'do). [< Gr. mfo-, combining form of 
cvdov, in, within, in the house, at home (= OL. 
endo-, indu-, in comp. ; cf. intus, within), < h 
= L. in = E. ,!.] A prefix in words of Greek 
origin, signifying 'within,' 'inside': equivalent 
endocephalous 
to ento-: opposed to ecto- or exo-, and in some 
cases to apo-, epi-, and peri-. 
endqarian (en-do-a'ri-an), a. Having internal 
genitalia, as an actinozoan ; of or pertaining 
to the Endoarii; not exoarian. 
Endoarii (en-do-a'ri-I), n.pl. [NL., < Gr. evdov, 
within, + !fa.piov, dim. of ov = L. ovum, egg.] 
The actinozoans: so named by Eapp (1829), 
with reference to their internal genitalia: dis- 
tinguished from Exoarii. 
endoarteriitis, endoarteritis (en"dd-ar"te-ri- 
i'tis, -ar-te-ri'tis), n. [NL.] Same &send<lrte- 
ritis. 
endobasidium (en"do-ba-sid'i-um), n. ; pi. en- 
dobasidia (-a). [NL., < Gr. evdov, within, + NL. 
basidium.] In my col., a basidium that is in- 
closed in a dehiscent or indehiscent concepta- 
cle, as in Gasteromyeetes. 
endoblast (en'do-blast), . [< Gr. ev6av, within, 
+ /JAaurdf, germ.] In biol., the internal blas- 
tema or substance of the endoderm : same as 
liypoblast. 
endoblastic (en-do-blas'tik), a. [< endoblast + 
-ic.] Pertaining to endoblast; constituting or 
consisting of endoblast; endodermal; hypo- 
blastic. 
endocardiac (en-do-kar'di-ak), a. [< Gr. evfov, 
within, + Kapd'ui, = E. heart (see endocardium), 
+ -ac. Cf. cardiac.] 1. Situated within the 
heart. 2. Relating to the endocardium, or to 
the interior of the heart: as, an endocardiac 
sound or murmur. 3. Situated in the cardiac 
portion of the stomach. 
endocardial (en-do-kar'di-al), a. [< Gr. evdov, 
within, + KapSla, = E. Jieari (see endocardium), 
+ -al.] 1. Situated within the heart. 2. 
Pertaining to the endocardium. 
Endocardines (en-do-kar'di-nez), n.pl. [NL., 
< Gr. ev6ov, within, + L. cardo (cardin-), a hinge : 
see cardo, cardinal.] A group of fossil (Creta- 
ceous) lamellibranch mollusks, containing the 
Budista; only, thus corresponding to the family 
Hippuritida; : opposed to Exocardines. They 
had an inner hinge, with teeth on one valve. 
endocarditic (en"do-kar-dit'ik), a. [< endocar- 
ditis + -ic.] Pertaining to endocarditis. 
endocarditis (en"do-kar-d!'tis), n. [NL. (= F. 
eiidocardite), < endocard-ium + -itis.] In pa- 
thol., inflammation of the endocardium. 
endocardium (en-do-kar'di-um), n. [NL., < 
Gr. evdov, within, -f Kapfiia = E. heart.] In 
anat., the lining of the heart, as distinguished 
from the pericardium, or investing membrane 
of that organ ; the membrane forming the inner 
surface of the walls of the car- 
diac cavities, or this surface 
itself. 
endocarp (en'do-karp), n. [= 
F. endocarpe, ( NL. endocar- 
pium, < Gr. Ivtiov, within, + 
/ca/ra-of, fruit.] In bot., the in- 
ner wall of a pericarp which 
consists of two dissimilar lay- 
ers. It may be hard and stony as 
in the plum and peach, membranous 
as in the apple, or fleshy as in the 
orange. The endocarp or stone, the 
epicarp or outer skin, and the mesocarp or fleshy part of a 
peach are shown in the cut. 
Endocarpese 1 (en-do-kar'pe-e), . pi. [NL., < 
Endocarpon (the typical genus) 4- -ece.~\ In 
bot., a family of angiocarpous lichens having a 
foliaceous thallus. Also Endocarpei. 
Endocarpese 2 (en-do-kar'pe-e), n. pi. [NL. , < Gr. 
evdov, within, + KO/OTOC, fruit, + -ea?.] In zool., a 
division of nematophorous C'celen tera ta, contain- 
ing those whose genitalia develop from the en- 
doderm: opposed to Ectocarpea: The division 
contains the Scyphomedusa?, and also the Aciino- 
zoa proper or An thozoa. Hertwitj Brothers, 1879. 
endocarpein (en-do-kar'pe-in), a. [< Eiidn- 
carpea; + -in 1 .] Same as endocarpoid. 
endocarpoid (en-do-kar'poid), . [< Endocar- 
pon + -aid.] In lichenology, having the apo- 
thecia sunken in the substance of the thallus, 
as in the genus Endocarpon. 
Endocarpon (en-do-kar'pon), n. [NL., < Gr. 
ivSov, within, + Kapirof, fruit.] In bot., the rep- 
resentative genus of EiKliicfir/ii-ir. It has the 
apothecia immersed in the thallus. 
Endocephala (en-do-sef'a-la), . pi. [NL., 
neut. pi. of * endocephalus : see endoiepnaJous.] 
The headless mollusks : same as Acephala. 
endocephalous (en-do-sef'a-lus), a. [< NL. 
"etidocepnalus, < Gr. ivfov, within, + /cf0a??;. the 
' head.] Having the head, as it were, within : 
acephalous or headless, as a lamellibranch mol- 
lusk; pertaining to the Endocepltalu. 
Mes 
Fruit of Peach 
(Ainyzdaliis Persi- 
ca). J-fi t endocarp; 
Kf, epicarp ; AffS f 
mesocarp. 
