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The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.

The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway.

To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.

The act entereing again; re Hooker.

An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. Todd & Bowman.

A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers.

trong, high wall, with turrets, in front gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.

A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.

A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.

em, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature.

An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land." Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman.

int; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to as, to balk expectation. They shall not balk my entrance. Byron.

confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it…