entotic 
entotic (en-tot'ik), a. [< Gr. cvr6f, within, + of 
(<Jr-), = E. ear 1 , + -ic.] Of or pertaining to 
the interior of the ear; being or arising within 
the ear : an epithet applied to auditory sensa- 
tions which are independent of external vibra- 
tions, but arise from changes in the ear itself. 
It [vacillation of intensity] is observed in cases of per- 
forated tympanum, and so cannot be due to periodic ten- 
sion of entotic muscles. Amer. Jour. Pnychol., I. 327. 
entotriceps (en-tot'ri-seps), n. ; pi. entptricipi- 
tes (en-tot-ri-sip'i-tez). [X Gr. ivr6c, within, + 
L. triceps, q. v.] The inner head or internal 
division of the triceps muscle of the arm, in- 
cluding the anconeus. Wilder, 1882. 
entourage (F. pron. on-t6-razh'), n. [F., < en- 
tourer, surround, < en tour, around: en, < L. in 
= E. in; tour, round : see towr 2 .] Surround- 
ings; environment; specifically, the persons 
among whom as followers or companions one 
is accustomed to move. 
entoyer, a. See entoire. 
Entozoa (en-to-zo'a), n. pi. [NL., pi. of ento- 
zoon, q. v.] In zool. : (a) In Cuviers system, 
the second class of Badiata, containing the in- 
testinal worms, divided into two orders, Nema- 
toidea and Parencliymata. These divisions corre- 
spond to some extent with the general groups of the 
round worms and the flat worms, but are not coincident 
with any modern orders. (J) Now, a general name, 
of no classificatory significance, of internal 
parasites, such as intestinal worms : opposed to 
Ectozoa, the ectoparasites. It applies to all ento- 
parasites, the effect of the former usage of the word 
making it still specially applicable to the entoparasitic 
nematoids, trematoids, and cestoids. Also Enterozoa. 
(c) [Used as a singular.] A genus of arachnids. 
(d) [_l. c.] Plural of entozoon. 
entozoal (en-to-zo'al), a. Same as entozoic. 
entozoan (en-to-zo'an), a. and n. [< entozoon 
+ -an.] I. a. 'Same as entozoic. 
II. n. One of the Entozoa; an internal para- 
site. 
entozoarian (en"to-zo-a'ri-an), a. and n. [< en- 
tozoon + -arian.] I. a. Same as entozoic. 
II. n. Same as entozoan. 
This had been described by Rathke in 1841 as an Ento- 
zoarian, but has since been proved by its transformation 
to be a Cirripede, and was named Peltogaster. 
Ewyc. Brit., VI. 647. 
entozoic (en-to-zo'ik), . [As entozoon + -ic.~\ 
1 . In zool., living inside the body of another an- 
imal; entoparasitic; pertainingto-Ewtozom. 2. 
In J>ot., growing within animals, usually para- 
sitic, as many eutophytes. 
entOZOical (en-to-zo'i-kal), a. [< entozoic + 
-a/.] Same as entozoic. 
entOZOOlogist (en"to-zo-ol'o-jist), H. [< entozo- 
ology + -ist.~\ A student of entozoology ; an in- 
vestigator of the natural history of the Entozoa. 
This great entozoblogist [Rudolph!], who devoted the 
leisure of a long life to the successful study of the present 
uninviting class, divided the parenchymatous entozoa, 
here associated in the class Sterelmintha, into four orders. 
Owen. 
entOZOOlogy (en'to-zo-ol'o-ji), n. [< Gr. ivrix;, 
within, + (,tforv, animal (see entozoon), + -toyia, 
< teyuv, speak: see -ology.~\ That branch of 
zoology which treats of the Entozoa. 
entozoon (en-to-zo'on), n. ; pi. entozoa (-a). 
[NL., < Gr. CVTOS, within, + foi>, an animal] 
One of the Entozoa; an internal parasite; an 
entozoan. 
There exists a creature called the Gregarina, [not] very 
similar in structure to the Hydatid, but which is admitted 
to be an entozoon. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 492. 
EntOZOOn fOUlculorum, the Demodex folliculorum 
(which see, under Demodex). 
entozootic (en"to-zo-ot'ik), a. [< entozoon + 
-ot-ic.'] Pertaining' to or of the nature of an 
entozoon. 
entr'acte (on'tr-akf), . [F., < entre, between, 
+ acte, act.] 1. The interval between two 
acts of a play or an opera. 2. Instrumental 
music performed during such an interval. 3. 
A light musical composition suitable for such 
use. 
entrail 1 (en'tral), n. The rarely used singular 
of entrails. 
Lest Chiehevache yow swelwe in hir entraille. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 1132. 
entrai! 2 t (en-tral'), . *. [< en-i + F. trailer, 
lattice. < treille, a lattice, trellis: see traitf, 
trellis.} To interweave; diversify; entwine or 
twist together. 
Before, they fastned were under her knee 
In a rich Jewell, and therein entrauld 
The ends of all the knots. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. iii. 27. 
Her high-pric'd necklace of entrailed pearls. 
Middleton, Micro-Cynicon, 1. 3. 
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entrailed (en-trald'), p- a. [< entrail + -ed 2 .] 
In her., having the same tincture as the field 
upon which it is borne, but darker. Also called 
mnbrated, shadowed, sfaApurfled. [Rare.] 
entrails (en'tralz), n. pi. [Formerly also en- 
trals, entrails, intrails, intrals; < ME. entrails 
(sing., rare), < OF. entraille, usually in pi. en- 
trailles, F. entrailles = Pr. intralias, < ML. in- 
tralia (neut. pi. of *intralis), equiv. to OF. en- 
traigne = Sp. entranas = Pg. entrannas, pi., = 
It. entragno, sing., < ML. intrania, intranea, for 
L. interanea, pi. of interaneum, intestine, neut. 
of interaneus, interior, internal, inward, < inter, 
in the midst: see inter-, enter-.'} 1. The in- 
ternal parts of animal bodies; the viscera; 
the bowels ; the guts : seldom used in the sin- 
gular. 
O Julius Ceesar, thou art mighty yet ! 
Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords 
In our own proper entrails. Shak., 3. C., v. 3. 
Hence 2. The internal parts of anything. 
Within the massy entrails of the earth. 
Marlowe, Faustus, i. 1. 
This is all this huge masse containeth within his dark- 
some entrails. Sandys, Travailes, p. 102. 
entraint (en-tran'), *. t. [< F. entrainer, < en- 
+ trainer, train: see train.'] To draw on. 
And with its destiny entrained their fate. 
Vanbrugh, jEsop, ii. 
entrammelt (en-tram'el), . t. [Formerly also 
entramel; < en- 1 + trammel."] 1. To trammel; 
entangle. 
They were meant for accusations, but are most pitiful 
failings, entrammeled with fictions and ignorance. 
Dp. Hacket, Abp. Williams, p. 104. 
2. To make into ringlets; curl; frizzle. 
Passe-Jillons, small earlocks . . . ; hence, any frizzled 
locks or cntramelled tufts of hair. Cotgrave. 
entrance 1 (en'trans), n. [Early mod. E. also 
entraunee,enterance,enteraunce; < OF. entrance, 
entrance, < entrant, entering, entrant: see en- 
trant."] 1. The act of entering, as a place, an 
occupation, a period of time, etc. ; a going or 
coming into ; hence, accession ; the act of en- 
tering into possession: with into or upon: as, 
the entrance of a person into a room; the en- 
trance of an army; one's entrance upon study, 
into business, into or upon the affairs of life, or 
upon his twentieth year; the entrance of a man 
into office, or upon the duties of his office; the 
entrance of an heir into his estate. 
Beware 
Of entrance to a quarrel ; but, being in, 
Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 3. 
When I was at Adrianople I saw the entrance of an am- 
bassador extraordinary from the emperor on the coBcln- 
sion of the peace. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 141. 
2. The power or liberty of entering; admis- 
sion. 
Has the porter his eyes in his head, that he gives en- 
trance to such companions? Shak., Cor., iv. 6. 
Oft, at your Door, make him for Entrance wait. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
Or her, who world-wide entrance gave 
To the log-cabin of the slave. 
Whittier, Lines on a Fly-Leaf. 
3. Means or place of access ; an opening for 
admission ; an inlet : as, the entrance to a house 
or a harbor. 
Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. 
Judges i. 24. 
And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 
Milton, P. L., iii. 60. 
The town ... is entered by a gateway of late date, but 
of some dignity ; but it is not much that the frowning en- 
trance leads to. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 323. 
4. An entering upon or into a course, a sub- 
ject, or the like; beginning; initiation; intro- 
duction. 
The enteraunce or beginnyng is the former parte of the 
oracion, whereby the will of the slanders by or of the 
judge is sought for and required to heare the matter. 
Sir T. Wilson, Art of Rhetoric, fol. 4. 
He that travelleth into a country before he hath some 
entrance into the language goeth to school, and not to 
travel. Bacon, Travel (ed. 1887). 
St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, 
makes a kind of apology. Hakemll, Apology. 
5. A report by the master of a vessel, first in 
person and afterward in writing, of its arrival 
at port to the chief officer of customs residing 
there, in the manner prescribed by law. 6. 
The bow of a vessel, or form of the forebody, 
under the load water-line : opposed to run. 
The Miranda has a fine handsome clipper bow, a good 
entrance, and her forebody is better than her afterbody. 
Boston Herald, July, 1888. 
entreat 
Entrance examination. See examination. The Great 
Entrance, in the Gr. Ch., the solemn procession in which 
the eucharistic elements are taken from the prothesis, 
through the body of the church, into the bema. This en- 
trance is the most impressive ceremony in the ritual of 
the Greek Church, and the procession is often long and 
magnificent. The Little Entrance, in the Gr. Ch., the 
solemn procession in which the book of the Gospels is car- 
ried through the church and taken into the bema. =Syn. 
1 and 2. Ingress, entry, admittance. 3. Inlet, avenue, 
portal. 
entrance 2 (en-trans'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. en- 
tranced, ppr. entrancing. [Formerly also in- 
trance; < en- 1 + trance."] 1. To put into a 
trance ; withdraw consciousness or sensibil- 
ity from ; make insensible to present objects. 
With which throng the lady Clara meeting, 
Fainted, and there fell down, not bruis'd, I hope, 
But frighted and entranc'd. 
Middleton (and Rowley), Spanish Gypsy, iii. 2. 
Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, 
They bore from Held and to the bed conveyed. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 
There is no doubt that many persons charged with witch- 
craft became insane or entranced, and that while entranced 
or insane they did see ... images or imps, confessed ac- 
cordingly, and were very logically hanged therefor. 
G. M. Beard, Psychol. of Salem Witchcraft, p. 11. 
Now, except when attacked at the vulnerable point, 
there is no reason why previously hypnotised persons 
should be mote liable to be entranced than any one else. 
E. Gurney, Mind, XII. 227. 
2. To put into an ecstasy; ravish with delight 
or wonder ; enrapture. 
And I so ravish'd with her heavenly note, 
I stood entranc'd, and had no room for thought, 
But, all o'erpower'd with ecstasy of bliss, 
Was in a pleasing dream of paradise. 
Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 119. 
I sank 
In cool soft turf upon the bank, 
Entranced with that place and time, 
So worthy of the golden prime 
Of good Haroun Alraschid. 
Tennyson, Arabian Nights. 
[Chiefly in the present and past participles in 
both senses.] 
entrance-hall (en'trans-hal), n. A hall at the 
entrance to a dwelling-house or other building. 
enhancement (en-trans'ment), n. [Formerly 
also intrancement ; < entrance 2 + -mentJ] The 
act of entrancing, or the state of being en- 
tranced; trance; ecstasy. 
entrant (en'trant), a. and . [< OF. and F. en- 
trant (= Sp. Pg. It. entrante), < L. intran(t-)s, 
ppr. of intrare (> OF. entrer, etc.), enter: see 
enter.'] I. a. Entering; giving entrance or ad- 
mission: as, an entrant orifice. 
II. n. One who enters j a beginner; a new 
member, as of an association, a university, etc. 
The entrant upon life. Bp. Terrot. 
entrap (en-trap'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. entrapped, 
ppr. entrapping. [Also intrap; < OF. entraper, 
entrapper, catch in a trap, entrap, embarrass, 
hinder, trammel, < en, in, + trape, a trap: see 
en- 1 and trap 1 .'] To catch, as in a trap; insnare; 
hence, to catch by artifice ; involve in difficul- 
ties or distresses ; entangle ; catch or involve 
in contradictions. 
Here in her hairs, 
The painter plays the spider ; and hath woven 
A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men, 
Faster than gnats in cobwebs. Shak., M. of V., iii. 2. 
The highest power of the soule is first intrapped, the 
lusting and sensible faculties follow after. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 25. 
entrapment (en-trap'ment), n. [< entrap + 
-me r nt.~\ The act of entrapping or catching, as 
in a snare or trap. 
Where given to understand 
Of some entrapment by conspiracy, [he] 
Gets into Wales. Daniel, Civil Wars, iv. 
entrappingly (en-trap'ing-li), adv. In a man- 
ner so as to entrap, 
entret, . An obsolete form of entry. 
entre-t. See enter-. 
entreasuret, intreasuret (en-, in-trez'ur), v. t. 
[< en- 1 , in- 2 , + treasure.] To lay up in or as in 
a treasury ; furnish with treasure. 
Things 
As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, 
And weak beginnings, lie intreasured. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1. 
So he [the jeweler] entreasures princes' cabinets, 
As thy wealth will their wished libraries. 
Chapman, on B. Jonson's Sejanus. 
entreat (en-tret'), v. [Formerly also intreat ; 
< ME. entreten, treat, deal with, also entreat, 
beseech, < OF. entraitcr, cntraitier, treat of, en- 
tertain, < en- + traiter, traitier, treat: see treat."] 
I. trans. 1. To treat, use, or manage; deal with; 
act toward. [Archaic.] 
There was oure Lord first scourged ; for he was scourged 
and vilcynsly rntrcted in many places. 
Manderille, Travels, p. 95. 
