eend
noun/iːnd/
- 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:
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Obsolete, Pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of end.
- 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:
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- 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: