entraill (entral)

The rarely used singular of entrails. Lest Chichevache yow swelwe in hir entraille. Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 1132. entrail2+ (en-trāl'), v. t. [ Before, they fastned were under her knee In a rich jewell, and therein entrayld The ends of all the knots. Spenser, F. Q., II. iii. 27. Her high-pric'd necklace of entrailed pearls. Middle ton, Micro-Cynicon, i. 3. entrance, entrance of an heir into his estate. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee. Shak., Hamlet, i. 3. When I at Adrianople I saw the entrance of an am ba ador extraordinary from the emperor on the conclusion of the peace. Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 141. 2. The power or liberty of entering; admi ion. Has the porter his eyes in his head, that he gives en- trance to such companions? Shak ., Cor., iv. 5. Oft, at your Door, make him for Entrance wait. Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. Or her, who world-wide entrance gave To the log-cabin of the slave. Whittier, Lines on a Fly-Leaf. both senses.] entrance-hall (en'trans-hål), n. A hall at the entrance to a dwelling-house or other building. entrancement (en-trans'ment), n. [Formerly also in trance ment; entrant (en'trant), a. and n. [OF. and F. en trant (= Sp. Pg. It. entrante ), OF. entrer, etc.), enter: see enter.] I. a. Entering; giving entrance or admi ion: as, an entrant orifice. II. n. One who enters; a beginner; a new member, as of an a ociation, a university, etc. Bp . Terrot. The entrant upon life. entrap (en-trap'), v. t.; pret. and pp. entrapped, ppr. entrapping. [Also intrap; Here in her hairs, 3. Means or place of acce ; an opening for lusting and sensible faculties follow after. admi ion; an inlet: as, the entrance to a house or a harbor. Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. Judges i. 24. And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Milton , P. L., iii. 50. The town is entered by a gateway of late date, but of some dignity; but it is not much that the frowning en trance leads to. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 323. 4. An entering upon or into a course, a subject, or the like; beginning; initiation; introduction. The enter a unce or beginnyng is the former parte of the oracion, whereby the will of the standers by or of the judge is sought for and required to heare the matter. Sir T. Wilson, Art of Rhetoric, fol. 4. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language goeth to school, and not to travel. Bacon, Travel (ed. 1887). St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hake will , Apology. 5. A report by the master of a ve el, first in person and afterward in writing, of its arrival at port to the chief officer of customs residing there, in the manner prescribed by law.-6. The bow of a ve el, or form of the forebody, under the load water-line: opposed to run. The Miranda has a fine handsome clipper bow, a good entrance, and her forebody is better than her afterbody. Boston Herald , July, 1888. IMG:content-0558.png:[blocks in formation] So he [the jeweler] entreasures princes' cabinets, As thy wealth will their wished libraries. Chapman , on B. Jonson's Sejanus.