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To inclose with curtains.

Clammy. [Obs.]

To variegate or spot, as with hail. A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues. Chapman.

Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.

The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc. Brande & C.

To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain. Leaves engrained in lusty green. Spenser.

To put into jail; to imprison. [R.] Donne.

That which is entailed. Hence: (Law)

The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.

To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.

One who entertains.

Affording entertainment; pleasing; amusing; diverting. -- En`ter*tain"ing*ly, adv. -- En`ter*tain"ing*ness, n.

or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the gospel. Bp. Sprat.

To interweave; to intertwine. [Obs.] Spenser.

The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth. That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America. Locke.

To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.

A hunter's name for the grizzly bear.

Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances.

Espial. [Obs.]

A metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found soon after the discovery of the metal selenium.