Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Ending
End′ing (ĕnd′ĭng), n. 1. Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.
2. (Gram.) The final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d Case, 5.
Ending day, day of death. Chaucer.