eend

plural eends

1. EarlyModernalternativerareAlternative form of end.

   Too the eend in thy trauail thow maiſt the moꝛe heedly be leſſon'd, / And paſſe to Italian region, thus ſhoꝛtly reherſing / Peece meale pꝛettie parings: foꝛ too tell a ſummarie total,

   1582, “The Third Booke of Virgil His Æneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC, page 53

2. obsoletepronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of end.

   One eend dat chain it bean in de jack feesh's gullet, an' t'udduh eend dat chain it bean in the frog's gullet.

   1900, Ed[ward] Mott, “A Plague of Egypt”, in The Black Homer of Jimtown, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 45

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   He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] eend, end.

   [1687, Chriſtopher Cooper, “Chap. XIX: Of Barbarous Speaking”, in The Engliſh Teacher, London: John Richardſon, for the Author, page 77; republished Menston: Scolar Press, 1969

   […] For I thowt, I heard ſummot coming, an if truth mun be ſpok'n, I'r ſo fearfully breed, at meh hure ſtood on eend, for theaw knows I noather knew whooa, or whot it moot be.

   1785, Tim Bobbin [pseudonym; John Collier], The Lancaſhire Dialect: Containing the Adventures and Misfortunes of a Lancaſhire Clown […] , London: [the Booksellers in Town and Country], →OCLC, page 18

present singular third person eends · participle present eending · participle past eended · past eended

1. EarlyModernalternativerareAlternative form of end

   O deere companions (foꝛ we erſt haue taſted of hardnes) / Bꝛawn'd with wooꝛſe vẽturs, thee mighty God alſo shal eend this.

   1582, “The Firste Booke of Virgil His Æneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC, page 6