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  • English Word Ent- Definition A prefix signifying within. See Ento-.
  • English Word Entablature Definition The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice.
  • English Word Entablement Definition See Entablature.
  • English Word Entackle Definition To supply with tackle.
  • English Word Entad Definition Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad.
  • English Word Entail Definition That which is entailed.
  • English Word Entail Definition An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
  • English Word Entail Definition The rule by which the descent is fixed.
  • English Word Entail Definition Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
  • English Word Entail Definition To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
  • English Word Entail Definition To appoint hereditary possessor.
  • English Word Entail Definition To cut or carve in a ornamental way.
  • English Word Entailed Definition of Entail
  • English Word Entailing Definition of Entail
  • English Word Entailment Definition The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
  • English Word Entailment Definition The condition of being entailed.
  • English Word Entailment Definition A thing entailed.
  • English Word Ental Definition Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal.
  • English Word Entame Definition To tame.
  • English Word Entangle Definition To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
  • English Word Entangle Definition To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.
  • English Word Entangled Definition of Entangle
  • English Word Entanglement Definition State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
  • English Word Entangler Definition One that entangles.
  • English Word Entangling Definition of Entangle
  • English Word Entasia Definition Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.
  • English Word Entasis Definition A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.
  • English Word Entasis Definition Same as Entasia.
  • English Word Entassment Definition A heap; accumulation.
  • English Word Entastic Definition Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.