Entry

[Fr. entrée. See ENTER.] The act of entering; entrance; ingre ; inlet; as, the entry of a man into public life, the entry of a ship into port, . - Way, path, or pa age in or into; the pa age by which porsons enter a house or other building; as, policemen dodge about an entry for the cook's cold victuals. - Act of entering and taking po e ion of lands or other estate. Act of committing to writing, or of recording in a book; as, to make a ledger entry. "A notary made an entry of this act."- Bacon . (Com.) The pa ing of a ship's documents at a customhouse, or the depositing of the requisite papers, to legalize the landing or shipment of goods, merchandise, . (Book- keeping .) The act of recording commercial transactions as they occur. Single - entry is that which is entered only once in the accounts in the ledger; a Double entry is effected by entering transactions in the ledger to the creditor of another set. In making the two entries, one is a real account under the name of the debtor infect with malice, bitterne , or uncharitablene . "With envenom'd tongue to blast the fame of harmle men." or creditor, and the other is a nominal or imaginary Philips . account under the head of the goods that have been -To enrage; to provoke; to exasperate; as, to envenom woman's jealousy. bought or sold. Take, for instance, the article "Sugar;" say the trader purchases a hogshead of the article from A. B. & Co.; he first enters in the regular way to the Cr. of A. B. & Co., and then, turning to the folio headed "sugar," he enters it on the Dr. side of the account as bought from A. B. & Co. In the same way, when the hogshead is sold to E. F. & Co., it is entered first to the En'viably, adv . In an enviable manner. En'viable, a . That may excite envy; susceptible of evoking ardent desire of po e ion; very desirable; as, an enviable state of single ble edne . En'viable ne , n. State or quality of exciting envi- able desire. Dr. of those parties, and then under the Cr. side of sugar as sold to E. F. & Co. By these double-entries, one the counterpart of the other, the nominal constantly check the real or personal accounts; and a trader can at all times tell how, when, and at what prices his property has been disposed of, without analyzing general accounts. See BOOK-KEEPING. ( Law .) The taking po e ion of lands and tenements where a man has title of entry. Entry is either actual, made by the party or his attorney; or an entry in law, by continual claim. Remedy by entry takes place in cases of abatement, intrusion, and di eisin; not on discontinuance or deforcement. Entune', v. a. To tune. Entwine', v. a. To twine; to twist round; to entangle; as, to entwine a wreath. -. n. To become twined, twisted, or involved; as, en twined with laurels.