entrust 
entrust (en-trust'), v. t. See intrust. 
entry (en'tri), n. ; pi. entries (-triz). [< ME. 
fit tree, entre, < OF. entree, F. entree (see entree) 
= Pr. intrada = Sp. Pg. entrada = It. entrata, 
< ML. intrata, entry, entrance, orig. fern. pp. 
of L. intrare (> OF. entrer, etc.), enter: see 
mfcr*.] 1. The act of entering; entrance; in- 
gress; especially, a formal entrance. 
The day being come, he made his entry: he was a man 
of middle stature and age, and comely. Bacon. 
The Lake of Constance is formed by the entry of the 
Khine. Addition, Travels in Italy. 
The house was shut up, awaiting the entry of some new 
tenant. Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xxxiii. 
2. A place of ingress or entrance ; specifically, 
a passageway or space allowing ingress or ac- 
cess; an entrance-hall or entrance-room in a 
1956 
entoar = It. intonare, < L. intonare, intone, 
chant: see intone.] To chant; intone. 
Ful wel sche sang the servise divyne, 
Entuned in hire nose ful semely. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 123. 
Thei herde the songe of the fowles and briddes that 
myi-ily were entuned. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 561. 
A company of yong gentlemen . . . and maydes . . . 
sung hyms and sonnets . . . entuned in a solemne anii 
mournful note. Hatceivttl, Apology, iv. 10. 
entunet, [ME. entune, entewne; < entunen, v.] 
A tune ; a song. 
Was never herd so swete a steven, 
But hyt hadde be a thynge of heven, 
So mery a soune, so swete entewnes. 
enunciate 
out seeds in eating. (6) pi. [cap.'} A name of 
the Psittaci, the crackers or parrots. 
enudationt (e-nu-da'shon), n. [< LL. ennda- 
tio(n-), < enudare, pp. enudatus, make bare, < 
L. e, out, + nudare, make bare, < nudus, bare: 
see nude.'] The state of being naked or plain ; 
the act of laying open. Bailey, 1727. 
enumbret, ' [ME. enumbren, enomnbren. < 
OF. enombrer, etmmbrer = Pr. enombrar = It. 
inombrare. < L. inumbrare, overshadow, cover, 
conceal, s en, in, on, + umbra, shade: see um- 
bra.'] To overshadow; conceal. 
And there he wolde of his blessednesse enoumbre him 
in the seyd blessed and gloriouse Virgine Marie, and be- 
come Man. Mandeville, Travels, p. 1. 
Chafer, Death of Blanche, l. 309. enumerable (g-nfi'me-ra-bl), a. [< NL. enume- 
[< en-i + twin, v. J To separate. raWKg) < L. eniimerare, number: see enumerate.'] 
building, or any similar means of access; hence, entw i ne ' intwine (en-, in-twin'), v. ; pret. and 
in English cities, a short lane leading to a court entwined, intwined, ppr. entwining, intwining. 
or another street: as, St. Mary's entry. 
We Passyd also by Oulfe of Sana, that y> the entre into 
Hunger!. Torkinyton, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 16. 
Zedekiah . . . took Jeremiah . . . into the third entry 
that is in the house of the Lord. Jer. xxxviii. 14. 
A straight long entry to the temple led, 
Blind with high walls, and horror overhead. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., 1. 1158. 
3f. Beginning; commencement. 
A-boute the entre of May, . . . these wodes and medowes 
beth florished grene. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 191. 
4. The act of beginning; an initial movement 
or entrance, as in a course or upon a subject or 
Capable of being enumerated ; numerable, in 
mathematics a collection or ensemble is said to be enu- 
merable if it can be put into one-to-one correspondence 
Dt> entwined, intwmed, r>r>T.cntwming,mtmmng. meraUle if it can be put into one-to-one correspom 
r? 1 in 2 4- tmnr 1 T trans To twine' twist witn integer numbers, even though it may be Infinite. 
[<e-l, -<!, + twme.} 1. trans. 1O Thus, the rational numbers, the algebraic numbers, etc., 
round. 
Which opinion, though false, yet entwined with a true, 
are enumerable ; but the points in a line, however short, 
are not enumerable. 
c , , , ---- ......... . ..... _ 
that the souls of men do never perish, abated the fear of enumerate (e-nu'me-rat), V. t. ; pret. and pp 
death in them. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 1. 
Love was with thy Life entwin'd 
Close as Heat with Fire is join'd. 
Cowley, Elegy upon Anacreon. 
Bound my true heart thine arms entwine. 
Tennyson, Miller's Daughter. 
II. intrans. To become twisted or twined. 
Harmonious youths, 
Around whose brows entwining laurels play. 
Glover, Leonidas, ii. 
[< entwine + 
-ment.] A twining or twisting round or to- 
gether ; intimate union. 
Like a mixture of roses and woodbines in a sweet en- 
twinement. Sp. Ilacket, Abp. Williams, p. 81. 
[< en- + twist.} To 
consideration. [Bare.] 
Attempts and entries upon religion. Jer. Taylor, entwinement (en-twin ment), n 
5. The act of entering or recording in a book ; 
the act of setting down in writing, as a memo- 
randum ; the making of a record. 
The enactments relating to the distillery provide for the t . t , twist"! * 
licenses and the registration, or entry as it is termed, of emiWlSt (,en 3t ), v. i. 
the distillery premises, the stills and utensils. twist or wreathe round. 
S. Dowll, Taxes in England, IV. 213. So dotn the woo dbine the sweet honeysuckle 
6. That which is entered or set down in writ- Gently entwist. Shak., M. N. D., iv. l. 
ing ; a record, as of a fact, or an item in an ac- entwisted (en-twis'ted), p. a. In her., same as 
count. annodated. 
entwitet, . t. [< en-i + twite. Cf. atwite.] To 
twit; blame; chide. Davies. 
Thou doest naught to entirite me thus, 
And with soche wordes opprobrious 
To vpbraid the giftes amorous 
Of the glittreyng Goddesse Venus. 
J. Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 165. 
A notary made an entry of this act. 
Bacon, New Atlantis. 
Credit is likely to be more extensively used as a pur- 
chasing power when bank notes or bills are instruments 
used, than when the credit is given by mere entries in an 
account. J. & Mill. 
7. A statement as to an importation of mer- 
chandise made under oath by an importer, to enubilatet (e-nu'bi-lat), v. t. [< LL. enubila- 
the effect that the merchandise described in J MS) pp. o f enubilare, free from clouds, clear, 
such statement is of the actual value declared < L. e> ou t, + nubila, clouds, pi. of nubilum. 
at the time and place where purchased or pro- cloudy weather : see mibilous, and cf . nubilate.J 
cured. 8. The exhibition or depositing of a To clear from clouds, mist, or obscurity. Smart. 
ship's papers at the custom-house to procure enubiloust (e-nu'bi-lus), a. [< L. e, out, + nu- 
license to land goods, or the act of giving an jjfos^ cloudy, nubilous: see nubilous, and cf. 
account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the en ubilate.'] Clear from fog, mist, or clouds, 
customs, and obtaining his permission to land Bailey, 1727. 
the goods. 9f. Inmusic, an act of an opera, bur- enucleate (e-nu'kle-at), v. t,; pret. and pp. 
letta, etc. 10. In law: (a) The act of taking enucleated, p'pr. enucleating. [< L. enudeatus, 
possession of lands or tenements by entering or 
setting foot on the same. There is a right of entry 
when the party claiming may, for his remedy, either enter 
into the land or have an action to recover It, and a title 
of entry where one has lawful entry given him in the land, 
but has no action to recover till he has entered. An ac- 
tual entry is made when one enters into and takes physical 
possession, either in person or by agent or attorney, (ft) 
The act of intrusion into a building, essential 
to complete the crime of burglary or house- 
breaking, (c) In Scots law, the recognition of 
the heir of a vassal by the superior, (d) A 
memorandum of an act made in the appropriate 
record provided therefor, (e) In relation to pub- 
lic lands, the filing of a written application in 
the proper land-office, in order to secure a right 
pp. of enucleare, take out the kernels, clear 
from the husk, explain, < e, out, + nucleus, 
kernel : see nucleus?] 1. To remove (a body, as 
a kernel, seed, tumor, the eyeball, etc.) from 
its cover, case, capsule, or other envelop. 
Lie ? enucleate the kernel of thy scabbard. 
Middleton and Rowley, Fair Quarrel, iv. 1. 
2. Figuratively, to lay open ; disclose ; explain ; 
manifest. 
The kynge . . . demaunded of euery man seuerally, 
what theysayde of these thynges whych Perkyn had both 
enucleated and requyred. Hall, Hen. VII., an. 7. 
Mark me, the kernel of the text enucleated, I shall con- 
fute, refute, repel, refel. 
Chapman, Revenge for Honour, i. 2. 
enumerated, ppr. enumerating. [< L. enumera- 
tus, pp. of enumerare(~> It. enmnerare = Sp. Pg. 
enumerar = F. enumefcr), count over, count 
out, number, < e, out, + numerare, count, num- 
ber : see number, numerate.] To count ; ascer- 
tain or tell over the number of ; number ; hence, 
to mention in detail ; recount ; recapitulate : 
as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation. 
The newspapers are for a fortnight filled with puffs of 
all the various kinds which Sheridan enumerated direct, 
oblique, and collusive. Macaulay, Montgomery's Poems. 
Noses (again) are in some cases chosen as easily enu- 
merated trophies. H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 351. 
Doctrine of enumerated powers, the doctrine that 
the Constitution of the United States confers upon the 
general government only the powers expressly mentioned 
in it. 
enumeration (e-nu-me-ra'shon), n. [= F. enu- 
mtration = Sp.' enumeration '= Pg. enumeracao 
= It. enumerazione, < L. enumeratio(n-), < enu- 
merare, enumerate: see enumerate.'] 1. The 
act of enumerating, (a) The act of counting ; a num- 
bering. (6) The act of stating in detail, as in a list. 
I will make a true and exact enumeration of all the in- 
habitants within the subdivision assigned to me. 
Enumerator's Oath, United States Census of 1880. 
2. An account of a number of things in which 
detailed mention is made of particular articles. 
Because almost every man we meet possesses these, we 
leave them out of our enumeration. 
Paley, Nat. Theol., xxvi. 
3. In rhet., a recapitulation of the principal 
points or heads of a discourse or argument. The 
enumeration or recapitulation is the most important part 
of the epilogue or peroration, and sometimes occupies the 
whole of it. Also called anacephalixoais. See epanodos. 
4. In logic, abscissio infiniti (which see) ; the 
method of exclusions. 
Enumeration is a kind of argumentwherein, many things 
being reckoned up and denied, one thing onely of necessi- 
tie remayneth to be affirmed. 
Blundemlle, Logic (1599), v. 28. 
Argument from enumeration. See argument. In- 
duction by simple enumeration, the drawing of a 
general conclusion simply on the ground that there are 
many cases in which it holds, and none known to the con- 
trary. 
Induction by simple enumeration may in some remarka- 
ble cases amount practically to proof. 
J. S. Mill, Logic, III. iii. I 2. 
enumerative (e-nu'me-ra-tiv), a. [= F. enu- 
meratif; as emimerate"+ -ivc.~] Serving to enu- 
merate; counting; reckoning up. [Rare.] 
Being particular and enumerative of the variety of evils 
which have disordered his life. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, v. 3. 
Enumerative geometry. See geometry. 
of purchase. llf. In medieval universities, enucleate (e-nu'kle-at), a. [< L. e- priv. + nu- enumerator (e-nu'me-ra-tor), n. [= F. 6nu- 
i. _ . -_i i. j i . _i T- _ _j 3 _ , . 1% i* i __ j _ a ^ * ... ,' ,-,r i , a , / *f\JT . #* iiv^ifv ninv ( T . f>rt'tiiY)f>m)'f > 
a house or houses hired bv a club of students ~ c leatus, having a kernel : see nucleate, and cf . 
to reside in at the university; a hostel; a hall, enucleate, t'.] Having no nucleus. 
See hostel. enucleater (e-nu'kle-a-ter), re. One who enu- 
These hostels were sometimes called " inns," " entries," cleates. 
or " nalls -" Laurie, Universities, p. 249. enucleation (e-nu-kle-a'shon), n. [= F. enu- 
Bill of entry_. ^See^OTs..Fprcible entry. _ Se_e/oraWe. cleation; a,senucleate,'v., + -ion.'] 1. The act of 
Single and double entry, in com. See bookkeeping. 
entryman (eu'tri-man), n. ; pi. entrymen (-men) 
T~ A,~ TT^Ii-^J Oi._t' _1 1_ - i__j J! 
merateur, < Nli. "enumerator, < L. enumerare, 
enumerate: see enumerate.] One who enu- 
merates or numbers; specifically, one who ob- 
tains the data for a census by going from 
house to house. 
Few noses are straight, but one enumerator found most 
to turn to the right, another to the left Mind, IX. 96. 
enucleating, or removing a body (as a kernel, 
seed, tumor, the eyeball, etc.) from its cover, enunciability (e-nun-si-a-bil'i-ti), . 
. i- rt -i^> ._i_7- . . J..-7.-J-. n n~ ~v:K*-~ 
rr 12 i ni Ir ; r i ----- r , \. seed, tumor, xne eveuaii, etc.; nuiu ii/s uuvtu, 
In the United States, one who, intending to ' capsu i e , or other envelop.- 2. Figur- 
settle, enters upon a homestead or other allot- lini r makin mini- 
ment of public land. 
The entryman, under the timber culture act, is not 
compelled to plant any trees until the third year from 
date of entry, when if he likes he may file a relinquish- 
ment of his claim, and the land is again open for entry. 
V A Dan nYTTT Kl 
,- :r __ _ --,, enuii- 
Capability of being ex- 
liable: see 
explaini?g O r making mni- pressed in speech. 
fest; explanation; exposition. emmciable (e-nun'si-a-bl), a. [< NL. "enun- 
Neither air, nor water, nor food seem directly to con- tiabilis,_ < L. cnuntiare, enunciate :^ see enunci- 
tribute anything to the enucleation of this disease [the 
plica polonica]. Tooke. 
entryway (en'tri-wa), n. 
for ingress; an entry. See entry, 2. 
entunet (en-tun'), v. t. [< ME. entunen, < OF. 
cntoner, F. cntonner = Pr. Sp. entonar = Pg. 
ate.'] Capable of being enunciated or express- 
ed : a term of the old logic. 
if. A. Rev., CXLII/59. enucleator (e-nu'kle-a-tor), n. ; pi. enucleatores enunciate (e-nun'si-at), v. ; pret. and pp. 
A passage or space (e-nu"kle-a-t'o'rez).' [NL., < L. enucleare, pp. enunciated, ppr. t-nuncititing. < L. enunciatus, 
enucleattis, enucleate: see enucleate.'] Inornith.: prop, enuntiattts, pp. of enunciare, prop, enun- 
(a) The specific name of the pine-grosbeak, tiare (> It. enunciare = Pg. Sp. emtnciar = F. 
Pinicola enucleator, from its habit of picking tnoncer, > E. enounce, q. v.), say out, tell, di- 
