'End stone' definitions:

Definition of 'End stone'

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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. [aum]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. [1913 Webster]
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. --Eccl. vii. 8. [1913 Webster]
2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence. [1913 Webster]
My guilt be on my head, and there an end. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. [1913 Webster]
Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
I shall see an end of him. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
Losing her, the end of living lose. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
6. (Carpet Manuf.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]