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END 
Confequence; conclufive event; conclufion.-—The end of 
thefe things is death. Rom. vi. 21. 
O, that a man might know 
The end of this day’s bufinefs ere it come! 
But it fufficeth that the day will end. Shakefpcarc, 
Fragment; broken piece: 
Thus I clothe my naked villainy, 
With old odd ends, (tol’n forth of Holy Writ, 
And feem a faint. Shakefpeare. 
Purpofe ; intention.—There was a purpofe to reduce the 
monarchy to a republic, which was far from the end and 
purpofe of the nation. Clarendon. 
Heav’n, as its inflrument, my courage fends: 
Heav’n ne’er fent thofe who fight for private ends. Dryd. 
Thing intended; final defign; the termination of intel- 
lefitual profpeft.—'The end of our fall is to pleafe God, 
and make him propitious. Smalridge. —Wifdom may have 
framed one and the fame thing to ferve commodioufly for 
divers ends. Hooker. —The end of the commandment is 
charity. iTim. 
Life, with my Indamora, I would chufe; 
But, lofing her, the end of living lofe. Drydcn. 
For when fuccefs a lover’s toil attends, 
Few alk if fraud or force attain’d his ends. Pope. 
An END, [Corrupted from on cnd.~\ Upright; eredl: 
as, his hair Hands an end.—An End has a iignification in 
low language not eafily explained '; as , mojl an end, com- 
manly ; perhaps it is properly an end, at the conclufion ; or 
corrupted from forne old word not eafily recoverable: 
Stay’d thou to vex me here? 
Slave, that, dill an end, turns me to diame! Shakcfpeare. 
To END, v. a. To terminate; to conclude; to finifii. 
>—They have ended all my harveft. Ruth. —That expen- 
live war under which, we have fo long groaned, is not yet 
ended. Smalridge .•—To dellroy ; to put to death : 
The lord of Stadord dear to-day hath bought 
Thy likenefs; for, indead of thee, king Harry, 
This fword hath ended him. Shakcfpeare. 
To END, v. n. To come to an end ; tobefinilhed: 
Then eafe your weary Trojans will attend, 
And the long labours of your voyage end. Drydcn. 
To die: [reXei'lcue.'] 
Yet happy were my death, mine ending bled, 
If this I could obtain, that, bread to bread, 
Thy bofom might receive my yielded fpright. Fairfax. 
To terminate; to conclude.—Our laughing, if it be loud 
and high, commonly ends in a deep figh; and all the in- 
liances of pleafure have a ding in the tail. Taylor. —To 
ceafe; to fail.—‘His fovereignty, built upon either of 
thefe titles, could not have descended to his heir, but 
mud have ended with him. Locke. —To conclude aftion or 
difeourfe : 
The angel ended, and in Adam’s ear 
So charming left his voice. Milton. 
END-ALL, f. Abfolute conclufion: 
That but this blow 
Might be the be-all, and the end-all, here. 
END for End, (a fea term,) when a rope runs all 
out of the pully, or off the block, or what it is wound 
••jpon. 
To ENDA'MAGE, v.a. To mifehief; to prejudice; 
to harm.—When an erroneous opinion is publiffied, the 
public is endamaged, and therefore it becomes punilhable 
by the magidrate. South. 
Nor ought he car’d whom he endamaged 
By tortous wrong, or whom bereav’d of right. Spenfer, 
Shakcfpeare. 
END 
ENDA'MAGEMENT, f. Damage; 
Thefe flags of France that are advanced here, 
Have hither march’d to the endamagement. Shakefpeare. 
To ENDAN'GER, v. a. To' put into hazard; to bring 
into peril.—Every one dedres his own prefervation, and 
therefore hath a natural dread of every thing that can de. 
ffroy his being, or endanger his happinefs. TillotJ'on. 
To force the foes from the Lavinian diore, 
And Italy’s endanger'd peace redore. Dryden. 
To incur the danger of; to hazard.—He that turneth 
the humours back, and maketli the wound bleed inwards, 
endangercth malign ulcers. Bacon. 
ENDAN'GERMENT, f. Peril: 
And bad his fervant Talus to invent 
Which way he enter might without endangerment. Spevf. 
EN'DE,oneof the fmaller Molucca idands. Lat.8.30; 
S. Ion. 120. E. Greenwich. 
ENDE'AR, ». a. To make dear; to make beloved. 
—All thofe indances of charity which ufually endear each 
other, fweetnefs of converfation, frequent admonition, 
all fignifications of love, mud be exprelfed towards chil¬ 
dren. Taylor. 
And in the mixture of all thefe appears 
Variety, which all the red endears. Denham. 
ENDEAR'MENT, f. The caufeof love; means by 
which any thing is endeared .—Herfird endearments, twining 
round the foul. Thomfon .—The date of being endeared; 
the date of being loved.—Is not the feparate property of 
a thing the great caufe of its endearment amongd all man¬ 
kind ? South. 
ENDEA' VOUR, f. [devoir, Fr. cndevoir.~] Labour di- 
redted to fome certain end; effort to obtain or avoid.— 
This is the hinge on which turns the liberty of intellec¬ 
tual beings, in their condant endeavours after, and deady 
profecution of, true felicity. Locke. 
Heav’n doth divide 
The date of man in divers functions, 
Setting endeavour in continual motion. Shakefpeare. 
To ENDEA'VOUR, v. n. To labour to a certain pur¬ 
pofe; to work for a certain end. It has commonly after 
before the thing.—I could wilh*that more of our country 
clergy would endeavour after a handfome elocution. Addif. 
Of old, thofe met rewards who could excel ; 
And thofe were prais’d, who but endeavour’’d well. Pope. 
To ENDEA'VOUR, v. a. To attempt; to eflay : 
To pray’r, repentance, and obedience due, 
Though but endeavour'd with fincere intent, 
My hand fliall not be flow, mine ear not fliut. Milton. 
To try at getting.—I’ll endeavour his acquaintance. Ccngr. 
ENDEA'VOUR STRAITS, a narrow fea, between 
New Guinea and New Holland. 
ENDEA'VOUR R 1 VER, a river on the north-ead coafl 
of New Holland, with a bar at its mouth, -and not depth of 
water for veflels to fail more than a mile above the bar. 
Lat. 15. 26.‘Sl. Ion. 145. 12. E. Greenwich. 
ENDE A'VOURER, f. One who labours to a certain 
end.-—He appears an humble endeavourer, and fpeaks I10- 
nedly to no purpofe. Rymer. 
ENDEA'VOURMENT, f. Labour: 
The hufband-man was meanly well content, 
Tryal to make of his endeavourment. Spenfer. 
ENDE'CAGON,yi [tv<ity.a.yov(& j , of evS'ence, and ycnct } 
Gr. a corner.] A plane geometrical figure of eleven fides 
and angles, otherwife called undecagon. If each fide of 
this figure be 1, its area will be 9-3656399= y of the 
tang, of 73-3^7 degrees, to the radius 1. 
ENDEDINE'MENUS, [from evhveu, Gr. to turn 
round.] A medical term for the eyes, when they turn 
round preternaturally in their orbits. 
ENDE'IS, 
