var. of AND(E, Obs. breath.
1597–1605. Polwart, Flyting, 568. His stinking end corrupted as men knawes.
a. 1600. Poems 16th Cent., 29 (Jan.). The sillie saul is quyte foryet, Quhill haistelie gais out his end.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj. Act K. William, 7. Gif blude be drawen (in anie part of the bodie) vnder the end (or mouth) [L. subtus anhelitum].
