end stone

One of the plates of a watch-jewel against which the pivot abuts. [JEWEL.] end, *ende, v. t. & i. [END, 8.] A. Transitive: 1. To bring to an end, to terminate, to conclude, to finish. "In that grete languour endid he his life." Robert de Brunne, p. 127. IMG:content-0969.png:[blocks in formation] *4. To die. IMG:content-0970.png:[blocks in formation] ii. 2. IMG:content-0971.png:[blocks in formation] Crabb thus discriminates between to end, to close, and to terminate: "To end is the simple action of putting an end to, without any collateral idea; it is therefore the generic term. To close is to end gradually; to terminate is foend in a specific manner. There are persons even in civilized countries so ignorant as, like the brutes, to end their lives as they began them, without one rational reflection: the Christian closes his career of active duty only with the failure of his bodily powers. A person ends a dispute, or puts an end to it, by yielding the subject of contest; he terminates the dispute by entering into a compromise." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.)