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nce; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entrée of a house.

A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepôt for shipping goods in transit.

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.

tten also intwine.] Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert.

ess, better nor worse; corresponding; alike; as, equal quantities of land, water, etc. ; houses of equal size; persons of equal stature or talents; commodities of equal value.

he word equivalent, then lately imported from France, was in the mouths of all the coffeehouse. Macaulay.

v. Eng.] Wright. Erd shrew (Zoöl.), the common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse.

To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.

A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town. Campbell (Mil. Dict. ).

A grazing; a country house. [Spanish America]

To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.

A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. Cowell.

A public storehouse.

ng rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels. [U. S.]

Good or established order or arrangement. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

w, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance. The Apostles, so far as they evangelized, might claim the tittle though there were many evangelists who were not Apistles. Plumptre.

ner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly. Shak. It went evil with his house. 1 Chron. vii. 23. The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us. Deut. xxvi. 6.

To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke. [R.] Stackhouse.

An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept. [Enq.] Parker.

f the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats. Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Shak.