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Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. And leave half-heard the melancholy tale. Pope.

A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.

Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous.

A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.

Having the end hooked or curved.

Bearing a small hook at the end. Gray.

To have; have. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Him thanken all, and thus they han an end. Chaucer.

read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. [Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. Tennyso…

Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem. The hard causes they brought unto Moses. Ex. xviii. 26. In which are some things hard to be understood. 2 Peter iii. 16.

To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. "Harden not your heart." Ps. xcv. 8. I would harden myself in sorrow. Job vi. 10.

Capability of endurance.

Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.

Acting together to a common end; agreeing in action or feeling; living in peace and friendship; as, an harmonious family.

d from a gun. Harpoon fork, a kind of hayfork, consisting of bar with hinged barbs at one end a loop for a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse power. -- Harpoon gun, a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the harpoon into a whale.

A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door.

nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.

The band at each end of the back of a book.

the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.

A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.