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That which is entailed. Hence: (Law)

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

The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

To free from entailment.

A peculiar insectivore (Ptilocercus Lowii) of Borneo; -- so called from its very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.

lmet which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor. Spenser. Her ventail up so high that he descried Her goodly visage and her beauty's pride. Fairfax.

To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.

Entailed; belonging to the eldest son. [Obs.] Bastard eigne, a bastard eldest son whose parents afterwards intermarry.

Hereditary; entailed on a family. Arbuthnot.

See Entail, v. t.

In an important manner or degree; essentaily; as, it materially concern us to know the real motives of our actions.

various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest male heir.

One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

The pentail.

An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted. [Written also tailzee.]