Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-TREAT'ANCE, n.

Entreaty; solicitation. [Obs.] Fairfax.

EN-TREAT'ED, pp.

1. Earnestly supplicated, besought or solicited; importuned; urgently requested.
2. Prevailed on by urgent solicitation; consenting to grant what is desired.
3. Used; managed. [Obs.]

EN-TREAT'ER, n.

One that entreats, or asks earnestly.

EN-TREAT'ING, ppr.

1. Earnestly asking; pressing with request or prayer; importuning.
2. Treating; using. [Obs.]

EN-TREAT'ING-LY, adv.

In an entreating manner.

EN-TREAT'IVE, a.

Pleading; treating. Brewer.

EN-TREAT'Y, n.

Urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation; supplication. The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth roughly. Provc. xvii. Praying with much entreaty. 2 Cor. viii.

EN-TREE', n. [Fr.]

Entry.

EN-TRE-METS, n. [Fr. entre and mets, or L. intromissum, It. tramesso.]

Small plates set between the principal dishes at table, or dainty dishes. Mortimer. Fr. Dict.

EN-TRE-POT, n. [ontrapo; Fr. entre and pôt, for post, positum.]

A warehouse, staple or magazine, for the deposit of goods.

EN'TRE-POTE, n.

A warehouse, or place for the deposit of goods.

EN-TRICK', v.t. [from trick.]

To trick; to deceive; to entangle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

EN'TRO-CHITE, n. [Gr. τροχος, a wheel.]

A kind of extraneous fossil, usually about an inch in length, and made up of round joints, which, when separated, are called trochites. These seem to be composed of the same kind of substance as the fossil shells of the echini. They are striated from the center to the circumference, and have a cavity in the middle. They appear to be the petrified arms of the sea-star, called stella arborescens. Nicholson. Encyc.

EN'TRY, n. [Fr. entrée. See Enter.]

1. The passage by which persons enter a house or other building.
2. The act of entering; entrance; ingress; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea or a lake; the entry of air into the blood; the entry of a spear into the flesh.
3. The act of entering and taking possession of lands or other estate.
4. The act of committing to writing, or of recording in a book. Make an entry of every sale, of every debt and credit.
5. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the custom house, 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.

EN-TUNE', v.t. [from tune.]

To tune. Chaucer.

EN-TUN'ED, pp.

Tuned; chanted.

EN-TUN'ING, ppr.

Tuning; chanting.

EN-TWINE', v.t. [from twine.]

To twine; to twist round.

EN-TWIN'ED, pp.

Twisted.

EN-TWINE'MENT, n.

A twisting round; union. Hacket.

EN-TWIN'ING, ppr.

Twisting round.

EN-TWIST', v.t. [from twist.]

To twist or wreath around.

EN-TWIST'ED, pp.

Twisted together.

EN-TWIST'ING, ppr.

Twisting together.

E-NU'BI-LATE, v.t. [L. e and nubila, mist, clouds.]

To clear from mist, clouds or obscurity. [Not in use.] Dict.