ENTAIL

n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

That which is entailed. Hence: (Law)

2.
n.

An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

3.
n.

The rule by which the descent is fixed. A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. Hume.

4.
n.

Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.] "A work of rich entail." Spenser.

5.
v.

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. Allowing them to entail their estates. Hume. I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. Shak.

6.
v.

To appoint hereditary possessor. [Obs.] To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. Shak.

7.
v.

To cut or carve in a ornamental way. [Obs.] Entailed with curious antics. Spenser.

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