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||En`to*zo"ön (?), n.; pl. Entozoa (#). [NL. See Entozoa.] (Zoöl.) One of the Entozoa.

||En`tr'acte" (?), n. [F. Cf. Interact.] 1. The interval of time which occurs between the performance of any two acts of a drama.

2. A dance, piece of music, or interlude, performed between two acts of a drama.

En*trail" (?), v. t. [Pref. en- + OF. treiller to grate, lattice, F. treille vine, arbor. See Trellis.] To interweave; to intertwine. [Obs.] Spenser.

En*trail", n. Entanglement; fold. [Obs.] Spenser.

En"trails (?), n. pl. [F. entrailles, LL. intralia, intranea, fr. interaneum, pl. interanea, intestine, interaneus inward, interior, fr. inter between, among, within. See Internal.] 1. The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.

2. The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.

That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America.

Locke.

En*train" (?), v. t. [F. entrainer.] To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.

En*train", v. t. [Pref. en- + train.] To put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment. [Recent, Eng.]

En*train", v. i. To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station. [Recent, Eng.]

En*tram"mel (?), v. t. [See Trammel.] To trammel; to entangle. Bp. Hacket.

En"trance (?), n. [OF. entrance, fr. OF. & F. entrant, p. pr. of entrer to enter. See Enter.] 1. The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.

2. Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends. Shak.

3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering.

Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city.

Judg. i. 24.

4. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. "Beware of entrance to a quarrel." Shak.

St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.

Hakewill.

5. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.

6. (Naut.) (a) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (b) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten.

En*trance" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entranced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Entrancing (?).] [Pref. en- + trance.] 1. To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.

Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, They bore from field and to the bed conveyed.

Dryden.

2. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.

And I so ravished with her heavenly note, I stood entranced, and had no room for thought.