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or more sete, or bristles : 4. with an acu- 
leus, or sting, either smooth or barbed. A 
sting is a weapon frequently hollow, with 
which some insects are furnished, and 
through which they discharge a poison 
into the wound they inflict. 
'the sexes of insects are commonly two, 
male and female. Neuters are to be met 
with among those insects which live in 
swarms, such as ants, bees, &c. 
The majority of insects are observed to 
be annual, finishing the whole term of their 
lives in the space of a year or less, and 
many do not live half that time ; nay, there 
are some which do not survive many hours ; 
but this latter period is to be understood 
only of the animals when in their complete 
or ultimate form, for die larva; of such as 
are of this short duration have in reality 
lived a very long time under water, of 
which they are- natives ; and it is observed, 
that water insects, in general, are of longer 
duration than land insects. Some few in- 
sects, however, in their complete state, are 
supposed to live a considerable time, as 
bees for instance; and it is well known 
that some of the butterfly tribe, though the 
major part perish before winter, will yet 
survive that season in a state of torpidity, 
and again appear and fly abroad in the suc- 
ceeding spring ; spiders are also thought to 
live a considerable time, and some species 
of the genus cancer are said to live several 
years, especially the common lobster, &c. : 
it should be observed, however, that these 
animals, in the opinion of some modern na- 
turalists, constitute a different tribe of be- 
ings from insects properly so called. Lin- 
naeus has divided insects into seven or- 
ders, I. COLEOPTERA; II. HeMIPTERA; 
III. Lepidoptera; IV. Neuroptera; 
V. Hymeroptera ; VI. Diptera • 
VII. Aptera, which see : and front 
these the several genera are referred to. 
ENTRY, in law, is the taking possession 
of lands or tenements where the party has 
a title ot entry, or an immediate right to 
possess them. This may be in person or 
by attorney, or is an entry in law, which is 
merely the making continual claim, by law 
considered equivalent to entry. A right of 
entry is when a party may have his remedy 
either by entering into the lands, or by ac- 
tion to recover it. A title. of entry is 
where one has a lawful entry in the land 
which another has, but has no action to re- 
cover it till he has entered. 
Entry is a summary remedy against cer- 
tain species of injury by ouster, or putting 
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out of possession of lands ; when the patty 
must make a formal but peaceable entry, 
declares that lie takes possession ; or may 
enter upon any part in the same county in 
the name of the whole ; and if he cannot 
go upon the laud for bodily fear, he may 
make a claim as near the estate as he can, 
which must be repeated once within every 
year and day, and is called continual claim. 
This remedy if> admitted only where the ad- 
verse possession originally commenced by 
wrong, as in the instances technically call- 
ed abatement, intrusion, or disseisin. On 
a discontinuance or deforcement the party 
is put to his action. Even in the former 
cases, when the original wrongful possessor 
dies, and the land comes to his heir, the 
right of entry is toiled, i. e. taken away by 
the descent. If the claimant was under 
disability, from age, coverture, &c. the en- 
try is not tolled by descent ; nor in case of 
an actual disseisin, unless the disseisor was 
in peaceable possession for five years. Staf. 
32 Henry VIII. c. 33. Entry must be 
made within 20 years after the claimant's 
right shall accrue, 21 Jac. I. c. 16 j and by 
4 and 5 Anne c. 16, no entry shall avail to 
save this statute, unless an action is com- 
menced and prosecuted with effect Upon it 
within one year after ; and, finally, by stat. 
5 Ric. II. st. 1. c. 8, entry must be pursued 
in a peaceable manner ; for if one turns or 
keeps another out of possession forcibly, it 
is not only the subject of a civil remedy, 
but of a fine and punishment for a misde- 
meanor. 
Entry, the writ of, is a possessory re- 
medy which disproves the title of the te- 
nant or possessor, by shewing the unlawful 
means by which lie entered or continues in 
possession. It was formerly an usual mode 
of recovering lands, but is now disused for 
the more convenient action of ejectment, 
and is never brought when that remedy can 
be used. There is much nice technical 
learning concerning it, which it would be 
vain to attempt to abridge in a popular 
work. It derives different denominations 
from the different cases to which the writ 
is applied, and those are generally derived 
from the terms in which it states the wrong- 
ful entry to have been made, or sets out the 
different degrees of descent through which 
the lands have passed in the possession of 
the wrongful tenants. After a certain de- 
gree of descents these are no longer noticed 
in the writ. The writ against the imme- 
diate wrong doer is called a writ of entry 
in nature of assize; that upon one descent. 
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