End

noun

The position farthest removed on either hand from the Interlocutor.

    The man was perishing apace
    Who played the tambourine;
    The seal of death was on his face --
    'Twas pallid, for 'twas clean.

    "This is the end," the sick man said
    In faint and failing tones.
    A moment later he was dead,
    And Tambourine was Bones.

        Tinley Roquot

—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary