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3. To cut or carve in an ornamental way. [Obs.]

Entailed with curious antics.

Spenser.

En*tail"ment, n. 1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.

2. The condition of being entailed.

3. A thing entailed.

Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force.

R. L. Dugdale.

En"tal (?), a. [See Ent-.] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal. B. G. Wilder.

En*tame" (?), v. t. To tame. [Obs.] Shak.

En*tan"gle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Entangling (?).] 1. 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.

2. 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. "Entangling alliances." Washington.

The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings.

Locke.

Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain.

Froude.

En*tan"gle*ment (?), n. State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

En*tan"gler (?), n. One that entangles.

||En*ta"si*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;. See Entasis.] (Med.) Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.

||En"ta*sis (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; a stretching; fr. &?;; &?; in + &?; to extend.] 1. (Arch.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

2. (Med.) Same as Entasia.

En*tass"ment (?), n. [F. entassement, fr. entasser to heap up.] A heap; accumulation. [R.]

En*tas"tic (?), a. [Formed as if fr. (assumed) Gr. &?;. See Entasis.] (Med.) Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.

En*tel"e*chy (?), n. [L. entelechia, Gr. &?;, prob. fr. &?; &?; &?; to be complete; &?; + &?; completion, end + &?; to have or hold.] (Peripatetic Philos.) An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.

||En*tel"lus (?), n. [NL., the specific name, fr. Gr. &?; to command.] (Zoöl.) An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor.

En*tend" (?), v. i. [F. entendre, fr. L. intendere. See Intend.] To attend to; to apply one's self to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

En*ten"der (?), v. t. 1. To make tender. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

2. To treat with tenderness. [R.] Young.