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To supply with tackle. [Obs.] Skelton.

Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad. B. G. Wilder.

That which is entailed. Hence: (Law)

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

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

To tame. [Obs.] Shak.

a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

One that entangles.

Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.

Same as Entasia.

A heap; accumulation. [R.]

Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.

An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.

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.

To attend to; to apply one's self to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make tender. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Attentive; zealous. [Obs.] Chaucer.

or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea. That darksome cave they enter. Spenser. I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall enter heaven, long absent. Milton.…

A prefix signifying between, among, part.