anend (2), anende, onend (an or on = on, in, and end )

I. Ordinary Language: 1. On end, perpendicularly. 2. Lastly. "I drede on ende quat schulde byfalle, Lest ho me es-chaped that I ther chos." Alliterative Poems ; Pearl (ed. Morris), 186-7. II. Naut .: A term applied to the situation of any mast or boom when standing perpendicularly to the plane of the deck, to that of the tops, . Top-masts are also said to be anend when they are hoisted up to their usual station at the head of the lower masts.