entail, entaile, entayle, enteyle

[Fr. entaille; Ital. intaglio.] [ENTAIL, v.] IMG:content-1031.png:[blocks in formation] "The hors of gode entaile." -MS. Douce, 291, fo. 136. 3. Place. "Honge we him in his entaile." -Sevyn Sages, 2,696. II. Law: 1. An estate or fee entailed or limited in descent to a particular heir or heirs, male or female. Estates-tail may be either general, that is, limited to one and the heirs of his body; or special, that limited to one, and his heirs by a particular wife. 2. The rule of descent settled for any estate. en-tāil', *en-taile, *en-taill, *en-tayle, *intaile, v. t. [Fr. entailler =to cut or carve; tailler = to cut.] I. Ordinary Language: *1. To cut or carve. "Thanne was that chapitre house queyn til i che en tayled." P. Plowman's Crede, 398. 2. In the same sense as II. 3. To fix or settle inalienably upon a person or thing. "None ever had a privilege of infallibility entailed to all he said."-Digby: On Bodies. 4. To bring on, to cause, to involve. "The intemperate and unjust transmit their bodily infirmities and diseases to their children, and entail a secret curse upon their estates." -Til lots on. II. Law : To settle the descent of any estate or fee by gift to a certain person and the heirs of his body, so that neither the donee nor any subsequent po e or can alienate or bequeath it. To cut off the entail: To put a termination to it. [DISENTAIL.] *en-tā'ile, s . & v . [ENTAIL, 8. & v.] IMG:content-1032.png:[blocks in formation] Mars what it does, yea very force entangles Itself with strength." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra , iv. 14. 5. To puzzle, to perplex, to bewilder. "I suppose a great part of the difficulties that perplex men's thoughts, and entangle their understandings, would be easily resolved."-Locke. 6. To distract or embarra with variety or multi plicity of cares. "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life." -2 Timothy ii. 4. 7. To mix up, to confuse. "What marvel, then, At times, unbidden notes should rise,- Confusedly bound in memory's ties, Entangling , as they rush along, The war-march with the funeral song?" Scott: Lady of the Lake, ii. 9. 8. To make confused or intricate. "Dismi the controversy bleeding, the more entangled by your hearing."-Shakesp.: Coriolanus , ii. 1. B. In trans.: To become entangled or involved. "The entangling boughs between." Cunning ham: The Contemplatist. For the difference between to entangle and to embarra , see EMBARRASS; for that between to entangle and to insnare , see ÎNSNARE. en-tan-gled (gled as geld), pa. par.ora. [ENTANGLE.] 1. Ord. Lang.: (See the verb.) 2. Bot . ( of hairs , roots . branches, .): So intermixed as not to be readily disentangled. ěn-tăn-gle-ment, s . [Eng. entangle; -ment .] 1. The act of entangling, ensnaring, or embarra ing. 2. The state of being entangled, involved, insnared, perplexed, or embarra ed. "Even Grotius himself appears not to be quite free from the entanglement." -War burton: Divine Legation, bk. vi., 8. 2. IMG:content-1033.png:[blocks in formation] en-ta-şi-a, 8. [ENTASIS.] The same as ENTASIS (2) (q. v.). en-ta-sis, s. [Gr.=a stretching, from enteinō = to stretch.] 1. Arch . The swell of the shaft or column of either of the orders of architecture. Some authorities make it consist in preserving the cylinder of a column perfect one quarter or one-third the height of the shaft from below, diminishing thence in a right line to the top; while others, following Vitruvius, make the column increase in bulk in a curved line from the base to three-sevenths of its height, and then diminish in the same manner for the remaining four-sevenths, thus making the greater diameter near the middle. ( Weale .) *2. Med .: A generic term for spasmodic diseases characterized by tension; as tetanus, cramp, . *ěn-task, v . t . [Pref. en , and Eng. task (q. v.).] IMG:content-1034.png:[blocks in formation]