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To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal. She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras. Shak.

To shelter. [Obs.]

To come 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. M…

ss pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc. The weary time she can not entertain. Shak.

In an enticing manner; charmingly. "She . . . sings most enticingly." Addison.

together or round. [Written also intwine.] Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert.

To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.

See Inwreathe. Shelton.

The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium.

A membranaceous or calcareous septum with which some mollusks close the aperture of the shell during the time of hibernation, or æstivation.

Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch. "Epochal points." Shedd.

lateral polygon. Equilateral hyperbola (Geom.), one whose axes are equal. -- Equilateral shell (Zoöl.), one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve, or divides it into two equal and symmetrical parts. -- Mutually equilateral, applied to two figures, when every side of the one h…

Having the valves equal in size and from, as in most bivalve shells.

See Ermine. Shenstone.

"Why wilt thou err from me" Keble. What seemeth to you, if there were to a man an hundred sheep and one of them hath erred. Wyclif (Matt. xviii. 12).

instruct; to educate; to teach. [Obs.] The skillful goddess there erudiates these In all she did. Fanshawe.

A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop.

Covered with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales. Escaloped oysters (Cookery). See under Scalloped.

The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood.

in English heraldry to display the arms of the bearer's wife; -- not commonly used unless she an heiress. Cf. Impalement.