Entrapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entrap
Entrap (v. t.) To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.
Entreated (imp. & p. p.) of Entreat
Entreating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entreat
Entreat (v. t.) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
Entreat (v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
Entreat (v. t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
Entreat (v. t.) To invite; to entertain.
Entreat (v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
Entreat (v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.
Entreat (n.) Entreaty.
Entreatable (a.) That may be entreated.
Entreatance (n.) Entreaty.
Entreater (n.) One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.
Entreatful (a.) Full of entreaty. [R.] See Intreatful.
Entreatingly (adv.) In an entreating manner.
Entreative (a.) Used in entreaty; pleading.
Entreatment (n.) Entreaty; invitation.
Entreaties (pl. ) of Entreaty
Entreaty (n.) Treatment; reception; entertainment.
Entreaty (n.) The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.
Entree (n.) A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.
Entree (n.) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.
Entremets (n. sing. & pl.) A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.
Entremets (n. sing. & pl.) Any small entertainment between two greater ones.
Entrench (v. t.) See Intrench.
Entrepot (n.) A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in transit.
Entrepreneur (n.) One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed.
Entresol (n.) A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.
Entrick (v. t.) To trick, to perplex.
Entrochal (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble.
Entrochite (n.) A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.
Entropion (n.) Same as Entropium.
Entropium (n.) The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.
Entropy (n.) A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function.
Entrust (v. t.) See Intrust.
Entries (pl. ) of Entry
Entry (n.) The act of entering or passing into or upon; 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.
Entry (n.) The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.
Entry (n.) That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.
Entry (n.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5.
Entry (n.) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
Entry (n.) A putting upon record in proper form and order.
Entry (n.) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.
Entryng (n.) Am entrance.
Entune (v. t.) To tune; to intone.
Entwine (v. t.) To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.
Entwine (v. i.) To be twisted or twined.
Entwinement (n.) A twining or twisting together or round; union.
Entwist (v. t.) To twist or wreathe round; to intwine.
Enubilate (v. t.) To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.
Enubilous (a.) Free from fog, mist, or clouds; clear.
Enucleated (imp. & p. p.) of Enucleate
Enucleating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enucleate
Enucleate (v. t.) To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.
Enucleate (v. t.) To remove without cutting (as a tumor).
Enucleate (v. t.) To bring to light; to make clear.
Enucleation (n.) The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.
Enumerated (imp. & p. p.) of Enumerate
Enumerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enumerate
Enumerate (v. t.) To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation.
Enumeration (n.) The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
Enumeration (n.) A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
Enumeration (n.) A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
Enumerative (a.) Counting, or reckoning up, one by one.
Enumerator (n.) One who enumerates.
Enunciable (a.) Capable of being enunciated or expressed.
Enunciated (imp. & p. p.) of Enunciate
Enunciating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enunciate
Enunciate (v. t.) To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.
Enunciate (v. t.) To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.
Enunciate (v. i.) To utter words or syllables articulately.
Enunciation (n.) The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth.
Enunciation (n.) Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.
Enunciation (n.) That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement.
Enunciative (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.
Enunciator (n.) One who enunciates or proclaims.
Enunciatory (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance.
Enure (v. t.) See Inure.
Enuresis (n.) An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.
Envassal (v. t.) To make a vassal of.
Envault (v. t.) To inclose in a vault; to entomb.
Enveigle (v. t.) To entice. See Inveigle.
Enveloped (imp. & p. p.) of Envelop
Enveloping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Envelop
Envelop (v. t.) To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.
Envelope (n.) Alt. of Envelop
Envelop (n.) That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
Envelop (n.) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma.
Envelop (n.) A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
Envelop (n.) A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.
Envelop (n.) A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. Now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine.
Envelopment (n.) The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.
Envelopment (n.) That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
Envenime (v. t.) To envenom.
Envenomed (imp. & p. p.) of Envenom
Envenoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Envenom
Envenom (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom.
Envenom (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter.
Envermeil (v. t.) To color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red.