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The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.

The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.

The thin inner coat of certain spores.

The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.

The inner lining of an another cell.

A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King.

To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.

A Linnæan class of plants having nine stamens.

Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal. B. G. Wilder.

One who makes an entrance or beginning. A. Seward.

to listen. Roses blushing as they blow, And enticing men to pull. Beau. & Fl. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Prov. i. 10. Go, and thine erring brother gain, Entice him home to be forgiven. Keble.

The inner germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus.

The inner granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.

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.

One who enters; a beginner. "The entrant upon life." Bp. Terrot.

In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.

dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.

The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.

The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year. Annual epact, the excess of the solar year over the lunar year, -- being eleven days. -- Menstrual epact, or Monthly epact, the excess of a calendar month over a lunar.…

A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice." Phil. iv. 4.