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pa rated, by the river Duero, and on the wed by the Atlan¬ 
tic. It takes its name from its fituation between the rivers 
Duero and Minho, the latter of which waters part of its 
northern borders, as the former bounds the fouth ; about 
fixty miles from north to fouth, and thirty-five from eaft 
to weft. The foil is fertile, and the air pure and healthy. 
It produces corn, wine, oil, and flax in abundance, with 
great numbers of ftieep, and plenty of game and fifh. 
It is divided into fix jurifdiftions, which contain 1460 
churches, 963 parifhes, 1130 convents, and 504,000 in¬ 
habitants ; it has feveral fea-ports fituated on navigable 
rivers, which render it very commercial. The principal 
towns are Braga, Porto, Viana, Guimaraens, Amarante, 
Moncao, Ponte de Lima ; the principal rivers are the 
Minho, Lima, Cavado, Tamega, and Duero. 
To ENTRE'AT, v.a. [trailer, Fr.] To petition; to 
folicit ; to importune.—Ifaac entreated the Lord for his 
wife. Gen. xxv. 21.—To prevail upon by folicitation.— 
The lord was entreated of him, and Rebecca his wife con¬ 
ceived. Gen. xxv. 21.—To treat or ufe well or ill.— 
Whereas thy fervant worketh truly, entreat him not evil. 
Fcclef. vii. 20. 
Well I entreated her, who well deferv’d, 
I call’d her often ; for fhe always ferv’d : 
Ufe made her perfon eafy to my fight, 
And eafe infenlibly produc’d delight. Prior. 
To entertain ; to amufe. Not uj'ed. 
My lord, 1 mud entreat the time alone, 
God fhield I ftiould difturb devotion. Shakefpeare. 
To entertain ; to receive. Not in ufe: 
The garden of Proferpina this bight, 
And in the midft thereof, a filver feat, 
With a thick arbour goodly overdight, 
In which (he often us’d, from open heat, 
Herfelf to fliroud, and pleafures to entreat. Spenfcr. 
To ENTRE'AT, v. n. To offer a treaty or compact. 
Not uj'ed .— Alexander was the firft that entreated peace 
with them. Mac .— To treat, to difeourfe. Notufed .— The 
mod admirable myftery of nature is the turning of 
iron, touched with the loadftone, toward the north pole, 
of which I fit all have further occafion to entreat. Hakewill. 
—To make a petition.—They charged me, on pain of 
perpetual difpleafure, neither to fpeak of him, entreat for 
him, or any way fuftain him. Shakefpeare. 
ENTREAT'ANCE, y.^Petition ; entreaty; felicita¬ 
tion. Notufed: 
Thefe two entreatance made they might be heard. 
Nor was their juft petition long deny’d. Fairfax. 
ENTRE'ATY, f. Petition; prayer; folicitation; fup- 
plication; requeft: 
If my weak oratory 
Can from his mother win the duke of York, 
Anon expeft him here ; but if fhe be 
Obdurate to entreaties , God forbid 
We fhould infringe the holy privilege 
Of fanfluary. Shakefpeare. 
Treatment : 
Yet if thofe cunning palates hither come, 
They (hall find guefts’ entreaty, and good room. B. Jonfon. 
ENTRECASTEAU'X, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Var, and chief place of a canton, in the 
•diftrift of Barjols : ten miles eaft of Barjols. 
ENTREME'TS, f. [Fr.] Small plates fet between 
ihe main diflies.—Chards of beet are plants of white beet 
iranfplanted, producing great tops, which, in the midft, 
have a large white main (hoot, which is the true chard 
ufed in pottages and entremets. Mortimer. 
EN'TREPAS,_/i in the manege, a broken pace, a kind 
©f amble. 
ENTRESO'LE,y in architeflure, a kind of little ftory, 
yaifed on another ftory. 
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ENTREVAU'X, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Alps, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrifl of Caftellane, on the Var; built near the ruins of 
the ancient Glandeves: five leagues north-eaft of Caf¬ 
tellane. 
EN'TROCHUS,yi[from er, and rpo^o?, a wheel.] A tro- 
chite or jointed petrefaflion, found in clay-pits, in the 
fliape of a wheel.— Entrochi, are a genus of extraneous 
foflils, ufually of about an inch in length, and made up of 
a number of round joints, which, when feparateand loofe, 
are called trochitae : they are compofed of the fame kind 
of plated fpar with the foflil fnells of the echini, which is 
ufually of a blueifli grey colour; and are very bright 
where frelh broken: they are all ftriated from the centre 
to the circumference, and have a cavity in the middle. 
They feem to be the petrified arms of that Angular fpecies 
of the fea ftar-fifti, called Stella arborefeens. 
EN'TRY, f. [entree, Fr.] The palfage by which any 
one enters a houfe.— Some there are that know the reforts 
and falls of bufinefs, that cannot fink into the main of it; 
like a houfe that hath convenient flairs and entries, but 
never a fair room. Bacon. 
A ftraight long entry to the temple led, 
Blind with high walls, and horror over head. Dryden. 
The aft of entrance ; ingrefs.—The lake of Conftance is 
formed by the entry of the Rhine. Addifon. —By the entry 
of the chyle and air into the blood, by the lafteals, the 
animal may again revive. Arhuthnot. —The aft of regifter- 
ing or fetting down in writing.—A notary made an entry of 
this aft. Bacon. —The aft of entering publicly into any 
city.—The day being come, he made his entry : he was a 
man of middle ftature and age, and comely. Bacon. A 
mufical air.—Among the different airs (fuch as fonatas, 
entrys, and farabands) there are different and diftinft fpe¬ 
cies. Shaftefbury. 
EN'TRY, in law, is the taking poffeflion of lands or 
tenements, where a man hath title of entry : and it is alfo 
ufed for a writ of poffeflion. This entry into lands, is 
where any man enters into or takes poffeflion of any lands, 
&c. in his proper perfon ; and is an aftual entry when 
made by a man’s felf, or by attorney by warrant from him 
that hath the right; or it is an entry in law, for a conti¬ 
nual claim is an entry implied by law', and lias the fame 
force with it. Lit. 419. There is a right of entry, when 
the party claiming may for his remedy either enter into 
the land, or have an adtion to recover it: and a title of 
entry, where one hath lawful entry given him in the 
lands, which another hath, but has no aftion to recover 
till he hath entered. Plozud. 558. Finch’s Lazo, 105. 
Entry, may be defined to be an extrajudicial and fum- 
mary remedy, againft certain ft ecies of injury by oufter, 
ufed by the legal owner, when another perfon who hath 
no right, hath previoufly taken poffeflion of lands or tene¬ 
ments. In this cafe, the party entitled may make a 
formal but peaceable entry thereon, declaring that there¬ 
by he takes poffeflion ; which notorious aft of ownerftiip, 
is equivalent to a feodal inveftiture by the lord : or he 
may enter on any part of it in the fame county, declaring 
it to be in the name of the whole. But if it lies in dif¬ 
ferent counties, he mud make different entries; for the 
notoriety of fuch entry or claim to the pares or freeholders 
of Weftmoreland, is not any notoriety to the pares of free¬ 
holders of Suflex. Alfo if there be two diffeilors, the party 
dilfeifed mud make his entry on both; or if one diffeifor 
has conveyed the lands with livery or two diftinft feoffees, 
entry muft be made on both. Co. Lit. 252. For as their 
feifin is diftinft, fo alfo muft be the aft which devefts 
that feifin. If the claimant be deterred from entering by 
menaces or bodily fear, he may make claim as near to the 
eftate as he can, with the like forms and folenmities : 
which claim is in force for only a year and a day. And 
this claim, if it be repeated once in the fpace of every 
year and day, (which is called continual claim,) has the 
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