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One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.

Full of entreaty. [R.] See Intreatful.

In an entreating manner.

Used in entreaty; pleading. [R.] "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.

Entreaty; invitation. [Obs.] Shak.

Treatment; reception; entertainment. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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

The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition. Neither sir, nor water, nor food, seem directly to contribute anything to the enucleation of this disease. Tooke.

See Inwreathe. Shelton.

A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession. Blackstone.

Liable to escheat.

The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood.

An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.

set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. Cowell. Estreat of a recognizance, the extracting or taking out a forfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court. Burrill.…

To deprive of shoes. [Obs.] Chambers.

The act of depriving or divesting of shoes. [Obs.] Chambers.

See Escheat. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Escheator. [Obs.]

To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Act of spitting out. [Obs.] Cockeram.