Terminus

1. n. Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.
2. n. Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
3. n. The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.
4. n. Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.