† 1. = LAND-END. Obs.
c. 1394. P. Pl. Crede, 437. And at þe londes ende laye a litell crom-bolle.
15[?]. Wife of Auchtermuchty (Bann. MS.), 9. He lowsit the pluche at the landis end, And draif his oxin hame at evin.
1562. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 68. Thou gossepst at home, to meete me at landis ende.
2. The extremity or furthest projecting point of a country. Now only as the proper name of the most westerly point of Great Britain.
14[?]. Sailing Directions Circumnavig. Eng. (Hakluyt Soc., 1889), 17. A newe cours and tide betwene Englonde and Irlonde and the Londis end. Ibid., 18. The Londes end of Irlonde.
1604. E. G[rimstone], D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, III. xi. 156. They passed on no further, neyther could they discover the lands end (which some holde to be there).
1793. Phil. Trans., LXXXIII. 190. We … were barely able to lay a course through the passage between those islands and the Land’s End.
