entad 
entad (en'tad), iirlv. [< Or. evrof, within, + 
-m/ :t .J In Mil. and anat., in a direction from 
without inward, or in, to, or toward a situation 
or position relatively nrurrr the center or ITU 
I nil parts (than something else); in, on, or to 
(lie inside or inner side : opposi'il to retail: us, 
the corium lies ciitinl of the cntiele. 
Entada (eu'ta-da), . [NL., from the Malabar 
name.] A small genus of very bill leguminous 
climbers of tropical regions. K.tcaiultiais widely 
distributed, and bear* very large flattened pods a foot or 
two long, or more, and 4 or fi inehes \\ide, constricted 
between till' seeds, \\hirll are \'. illrlles broad. 
entail (en-tal'), r. t. [Also intuit; < ME. entail- 
en, < OF. entailler, F. entailler = Pr. entalhar, 
riittiillitr = Sp. entallar = Pg. entalhar = It. in- 
tagliare, < ML. intaliare, "intaleare, cut into, 
carve, < L. in, in, + ML. taliare, taleare (> F. 
tailler, etc.), cut: see tail 2 , tally.] If. To cut; 
carve for ornament. 
Thanne was the chapttre-houa wroujt as a greet chlrche, 
Conien and couered and queyntliehe entayled. 
Pien Plowman't Orede.(E. E. T. S.), 1. 200. 
The mortale steele despiteously entayld 
Deep In their flesh. Spenser, F. Q., II. vl. 29. 
In gllden buskins of costly Cordwayne, 
All bard with golden bendes, which were entayld 
With curious antickes. Sptmer, F. Q., II. ill. 27. 
2. In lute, to limit and restrict the descent of 
(lands and tenements) by gift to a man and to 
a specified line of heirs, by settlement in such 
wise that neither the donee nor any subsequent 
possessor can alienate or bequeath it: as, to 
entail a manor to A. B. and to his eldest son, or 
to his heirs of his body begotten, or to his heirs 
by a particular wife. See entail, n., 3. 
He [Moses] doth not (Now) study to make his Will, 
1" Entail his Land to his Male-Issue still : 
Wisely and iustly to divide his Good, 
To Sons and Daughters, and Ills neerest Blood. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas'a Weeks, ii., The Lawe. 
I here entail 
The crown to thee, and to thine heirs for ever. 
Shale., 3 Hen. VI., I. 1. 
Hence 3. To fix inalienably on a person or 
thing, or oil a person and his descendants; 
transmit in an unalterable course ; devolve as 
an unavoidable consequence. 
My grief's entailed upon my wasteful breath, 
Which no recov'ry can cutoff but death. 
Quarter, Emblems, ill. IS. 
The intemperate and unjust transmit their bodily in 
flrmlties and diseases to their children, and entail a secret 
curse upon their estates. THlotson. 
It is entailed upon humanity to submit. 
OoldmMh, Vicar, \i\. 
A vicious form of legal procedure, for example, either 
enacted or tolerated, entails on suitors costs, or delays, 
or defeats. //. Spencer, Man vs. State, p. M. 
4. To bring about ; cause to ensue or accrue ; 
induce ; involve or draw after itself. 
Political economy tells us that loss is entailed by a forced 
trade with colonies. //. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 501. 
No member of the chamber can, without its assent, be 
submitted to examination or arrest for any proceeding 
entailing penalties, unless seized in the act or within 24 
hours of the same. 
Keltie. 
Whose whole career was lie entailing lie 
Sought to be sealed truth by the worst lie last ! 
Hmimi >t\i, Ring and Book, I. 183. 
entail (en-tal' ),. [Formerly also in tail; < ME. 
t'uliiile, entayle, < OF. entaille, F. entaille (ML. 
intalia), f., t= Pr. entalh = OSp. entalle = Pg. 
i nttilho = It. intaglio (> E. intaglio, a. v.), m., 
a cutting, cut, notch, groove ; from the verb.] 
If. Engraved or carved work ; intaglio; inlay. 
A worke of rich entayle and curious mould, 
Woven with antickes and wyld ymagery. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vti. 4. 
2f. Shape ; that which is carved or shaped. 
An image of another entaile 
A lifte halfe was her fast by, 
Her name aboue her heed saw I, 
And she was called Felony. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 162. 
3. In law : (a) The limitation of land to cer- 
tain members of a particular family or line of 
descent; a prescribed order of successive in- 
heritances, voluntarily created, to keep land in 
the family undivided ; the rule of descent set- 
tled for an estate. 
He [Walpole) scoffed at . . . the practice of entail, and 
tasked the ingenuity of conveyancers to tie up his villa in 
the strictest settlement. Macautnit, Horace Walpole. 
(6) An estate entailed or limited to particular 
heirs ; an estate given to a man and his heirs. 
The word is now, however, often loosely used, since strict 
entails are obsolete, to indieate the giving of property to 
one or to two successively for life with suspension of power 
of alienation meanwhile. By early F.nplish law. as fully 
established under the Norman mnt|iiest. a feotfment or 
grant of land to i; A imd the heirs of his body ereated an 
entail. K> that neither A nor an] snrrrssive heir taking un- 
der the grant could alien the land ; ami if the line of heirs 
1945 
failed, the land reverted to the lord who made the grant, 
or his heirs. In course of time the inconveniences of 
the restriction <>n alienation led the courts to hold that 
such a gift must be understood not as a gift to the heirs 
after A, but to A on condition that he should have heirs ; 
in other Moid-, that the heirs eoiild not elaim as donees 
under the feotfment, but only as heirs under A, and that 
hence A took a fee, whieh, if he had heirs of his body, be- 
came absolute, and enabled him to alien the land. This 
prartieal aliolition of entails by the courU was followed 
by Die statute of Westminster of 12S5, known as the itat- 
nle dt Doiiii Conditionalibut, which enacted that the will 
of the donor in such gifts according to the form manifest- 
ly expressed should be observed, so that such a grantee 
should have no power t., alien. Under this ait. ln< h n 
established entails, a large part of the land in England 
was fettered by such grants. The courts, still disfavoring 
entails, termed the estate thus granted a fee tail (see tail), 
and sustained alienations by the tenant in tail, subject, 
however, to the right of the heim in tail, or, if none, of the 
lord, to enter on the death of the tenant who had con- 
veyed. (See bate fee, under feel.) They subsequently also 
sanctioned absolute alienations by allowing the tenant in 
tail to have an action brought against him In which he 
collusively suffered the plaintiff to recover the land. (Bee 
fine?, recovery, and Taltarum'* case., under wel.) In 
1833 a direct deed was substituted by statute for this fic- 
tion. The object of entails is now, to some extent, secured 
by family or marriage settlements, which are often, but in- 
accurately, spoken of as if effecting entails. In most If 
not all of the United States, and In Canada, entails have 
been alx>lished, either as In England or by statutes de- 
claring that words which would formerly create an entail 
create a fee simple, or, as in some States, a life estate with 
remainder in fee simple to heirs. Quasi entail, an en- 
tail of an estate less than a fee, such as an estate for the 
life of a third person. Statute of entail, a name some- 
times given to the statute de Donis Conditionalibus (which 
see, above). To bar an entail, to dock an entail, to 
defeat the restrictions of an entail by aliening or resettling 
the land. 
entailer (en-ta'ler), n. One who executes an 
entail ; one who limits the descent of his prop- 
erty to a particular heir or series of heirs. 
The entailer cannot disappoint those children who have 
rights to a portion of his property. Brougham. 
entailment (en-tal'ment), n. [< entail + -men!.] 
1. The act of entailing, or of limiting the de- 
scent of an estate to a particular heir and bis 
descendants. 2. The state of being entailed. 
ental (en'tal), a. [< Gr. tvr6f, within, + -al.] 
In zoiil. and anat., inner; internal: opposed to 
ectal. See entad. 
entalentt, v. t. [ME. entalenten, < OF. entalen- 
ter = Pr. entalentar, entalantar=lt. intalentare, 
excite, raise a desire, < L. in, in, + ML. talen- 
tum, an inclination, desire : see en- 1 and talent.] 
To implant a desire in ; endow with. 
Trust partite loue, entire charlte, 
Feruent will, and entalented corage. 
Utter of Cupid. 
Entails (en'ta-lis), n. [NL. ; a perversion of 
Dentalium.] "A. genus of tooth-shells, of the 
family Dentaliidat. E. striolata is an American 
species. 
entame 1 1, r. t. [ME. entamen, < OF. entamer = 
Pr. entamenar, <. ML. intaminare, touch, con- 
taminate, < L. in, in, on, + "taminare, touch: 
see a I in in i ~ and contaminate.] To harm ; hurt ; 
tear open. 
Let not my foe no more my wounde entame. 
Chaucer, A. B. C., 1. 79. 
'I hay hafe up hys hawberke thane, and handllez ther- 
undyre, . . . 
l'.ot In- his bakke and his breste. and his hryghte armez : 
Thay ware fayne that they fande no flesche entamede. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1160. 
entame-t (en-tam'), v. t. [< en- 1 + tame.] To 
tame; subdue. 
"Its not . . . your cheek of cream 
That can entame my spirits to your worship. 
Shak., As you Like ft, III. 5. 
entangle (en-tang'gl), v. C.J pret. and pp. en- 
tangled, ppr. entangling. [Formerly also intan- 
gle; ten-' + tangle.] 1. To tangle ;. intermix 
the parts of confusedly ; make confused or dis- 
ordered: as, to entangle the hair. See tanyle. 
[Rare.] 
What a happiness would it have been, could Hester 
Prynne . . . have distinguished and unravelled her own 
darling's tones, amid all the entangled outcry of a group 
of sportive children. Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, vi. 
2. To insnare ; involve, so as to render extri- 
cation difficult ; subject to constraining or be- 
wildering complications : as, to entangle fish in 
the meshes of a net; to entangle a person in a 
labyrinth. 
They are entangled In the land, the wilderness hath shut 
them in. Ex. xiv. 3. 
Nature catches.entan^bt.and holds all such outrages and 
insurrections In her inextricable net. Bacon, Fable of Pan. 
It is under this representation [of sensual pleasure] 
chiefly, that sin de ,iys, entanglei, bewitches, 
destroys the souls of men. .S*fi7/in</rf<vf, Sennons, II. iii. 
Snow is white and opaque In consequence of the air en. 
taniiled among its crystals. Huxley, Physiography, p. 154. 
3. To involve in difficulties or embarrassments ; 
embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or 
entassement 
perplexing circumstancea, interests, demands, 
etc.; hamper; bewilder. 
The Pharisees took counsel how they might eittaivite 
him In his talk. Mat. xxll. 15. 
I suppose a great part of the difficulties that perplex 
men's thoughts, and rntantite their understandings, would 
lie easily resolved. Locke. 
= 8vn. 1. To tangle, knot, snarl, mat. 2. Involve, etc. 
3. l.i . onfum inv.l:li 
entangled (en-tang'gld), y. a. In her., same as 
entanglement (en-tang'gl-ment), n. [< en- 
tinii/lc + -ment.] 1. The act of entangling, or 
the state of being entangled; a confused or 
disordered state ; intricacy; perplexity. 
The sad, dangerous, and almost fatal entanytementt of 
this corporeal world. 
Dr. II. More, Pre-existence of the Soul, Pref. 
It is to fence against the enlani/letnenli of equivocal 
words, and the art of sophistry, that distinctions have 
been multiplied. A...*.. 
2. That which entangles ; specifically, in fort., 
an obstruction placed in front or on the flank 
of a fortification, to impede an enemy's ap- 
proach. It Is a kind of abatis made by partially severing 
the trunks of trees, pulling down the tops, and securing 
them to the ground by means of pickets or crotchets. 
Wire entanglements, military entanglements made by 
placing at least three rows of stout pickets across the space 
to he obstructed, and twisting wire around them. The 
pickets are arranged in quincunx order, with the wires 
crossing diagonally. 
entangler (en-tang'gler), w. One who entan- 
gles. Johnson. 
entangling (en-taug'gling), n. [Verbal n. of 
entangle, r,] An entanglement or complica- 
tion. [Rare.] 
But miracles, like the hero's sword, divided these en- 
tanglingi at a stroke, and at once made their way through 
them. Up. Attertniry, Sennons, II. viii. 
entangling (en-tang'gling), p. a. [Ppr. of en- 
tangle, v.] Serving to entangle, involve, or 
embarrass. 
Honest friendship with all nations, entanglinii alliances 
with none. Jefferson, Inaugural Address. 
entasia (en-ta'si-H), n. [NL. : see entasis.] 
Same as entasis, 2. 
entasis (en'ta-sis), M. [NL., < Gr. evTaeic,, a 
stretching, distention, < tvreiveiv (= L. inten- 
d-ere), stretch, < rv, in, on, + reivciv = L. ten- 
d-ere, stretch : 
see tend 1 .] 1. In 
arch., the swell- 
ing or outward 
curve of the 
profile of the 
shaft of a col- 
umn. The entasis 
exists in perfec- 
tion in the finest 
examples of Greek 
Doric, in which the 
swelling is greatest 
a little below the 
middle point of the 
shaft, but never so 
great as to inter- 
fere with the steady 
diminution of the 
shaft from the base 
upward. The en* 
tasis is designed 
both to counteract 
the optical illusion 
which would cause 
the profiles of the 
shafts to appear 
inward If 
f f, arcs of entasis i The proportions and 
the amount of entasis are much e 
for the purpose of illustration.) 
cnned 
they were bounded 
by straight Hues, 
and to give the 
effect of life and elasticity to the column in its function 
of supporting superimposed weight. 
2. In put lnil.. constructive or tonic spasm, as 
cramp, lockjaw, etc. See tetanus. Alsoentasia. 
entaskt (en-task'), r. t. [< i-i 4- task.] To 
lay a task upon. Davits. 
Yet sith the Heav'ns haue thus entaskt my layes, . . . 
It Is enough, if heer-by I Incite 
Some happier spirit to do thy Muse more right. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas s Weeks, I. 4. 
entasset (en-tas'), v. t. [ME. entassen, < OF. 
entasser, F. entasser, < ML. intassare, heap up, 
< L. in, in, on , 4- ML. tassus, tassa ( > F. tas, etc. ), 
a heap.] To heap up ; crowd together. 
Gawein lelde honde to his swerde and smote in to the 
thikkest of the presse, and passed thourgh the stonr as 
thikke as thel weren rnta**td, and his felowes spake moche 
of the prowesse that the! saugh hym do. 
Meriin (E. E. T. S.X iii. 410. 
entassementt (en-tas'ment), n. [ME., < OF. en- 
tassement, F. entassement, < entasser, heap up: see 
<ntn.w.] Aheap; an accumulation ; a crowd. 
Ther was grete eutaueutent of men and of horse vpou 
hepes. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), Ui. S98. 
