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    end organ
    [ noun ]
    a specialized structure at the peripheral end of some motor or sensory nerve fibers
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    End \End\ ([e^]nd), n. [OE. & AS. ende; akin to OS. endi, D.
    einde, eind, OHG. enti, G. ende, Icel. endir, endi, Sw.
    ["a]nde, Dan. ende, Goth. andeis, Skr. anta. [root]208. Cf.
    {Ante-}, {Anti-}, {Answer}.]
    1. The extreme or last point or part of any material thing
    considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being
    side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part;
    termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line,
    pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end
    to pain; -- opposed to {beginning}, when used of anything
    having a first part.

    Better is the end of a thing than the beginning
    thereof. --Eccl. vii.
    8.

    2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion;
    issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive
    event; consequence.

    My guilt be on my head, and there an end. --Shak.

    O that a man might know
    The end of this day's business ere it come! --Shak.

    3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination;
    also, cause of death or destruction.

    Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. --Pope.

    Confound your hidden falsehood, and award
    Either of you to be the other's end. --Shak.

    I shall see an end of him. --Shak.

    4. The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close
    and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to
    labor for private or 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; a scrap; as,
    odds and ends.

    I clothe my naked villainy
    With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ,
    And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
    --Shak.

    6. (Carpet Manuf.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a
    Brussels carpet.

    {An end}.
    (a) On end; upright; erect; endways. --Spenser
    (b) To the end; continuously. [Obs.] --Richardson.

    {End bulb} (Anat.), one of the bulblike bodies in which some
    sensory nerve fibers end in certain parts of the skin and
    mucous membranes; -- also called {end corpuscles}.

    {End fly}, a bobfly.

    {End for end}, one end for the other; in reversed order.

    {End man}, the last man in a row; one of the two men at the
    extremities of a line of minstrels.

    {End on} (Naut.), bow foremost.

    {End organ} (Anat.), the structure in which a nerve fiber
    ends, either peripherally or centrally.

    {End plate} (Anat.), one of the flat expansions in which
    motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.

    {End play} (Mach.), movement endwise, or room for such
    movement.

    {End stone} (Horol.), one of the two plates of a jewel in a
    timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play.

    {Ends of the earth}, the remotest regions of the earth.

    {In the end}, finally. --Shak.

    {On end}, upright; erect.

    {To the end}, in order. --Bacon.

    {To make both ends meet}, to live within one's income.
    --Fuller.

    {To put an end to}, to destroy.

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