Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: EN-TAN'GLE – EN'TER-PRIS-ER
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EN-TAN'GLE, v.t. [from tangle.]
- To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make confused or disordered; as, thread, yarn or ropes may be entangled; to entangle the hair.
- To involve in any thing complicated, and from which it is difficult to extricate one's self; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.
- To lose in numerous or complicated involutions, as in a labyrinth.
- To involve in difficulties; to perplex; to embarrass; as, to entangle a nation in alliances.
- To puzzle; to bewilder; as, to entangle the understanding. Locke.
- To insnare by captious questions; to catch; to perplex; to involve in contradictions. The Pharisees took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. Math. xxii.
- To perplex or distract, as with cares. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life. 2 Tim. ii.
- To multiply intricacies and difficulties.
EN-TAN'GLED, pp. [or a.]
Twisted together; interwoven in a confused manner; intricate; perplexed; involved; embarassed; insnared.
EN-TAN'GLE-MENT, n.
Involution; a confused or disordered state; intricacy; perplexity. Locke.
EN-TAN'GLER, n.
One who entangles.
EN-TAN'GLING, ppr.
Involving; interweaving or interlocking in confusion; perplexing; insnaring.
EN-TASS'MENT, n. [Fr.]
A heap; accumulation.
EN-TAS'TIC, a.
Relating to all diseases characterized by tonic spasms.
EN-TEN'DER, v.t.
To treat with tenderness or kindness. Young.
EN'TER, v.i.
- To go or come in; to pass into; as, to enter into a country.
- To flow in; as, water enters into a ship.
- To pierce; to penetrate; as, a ball or an arrow enters into the body.
- To penetrate mentally; as, to enter into the principles of action.
- To engage in; as, to enter into business or service; to enter into visionary projects.
- To be initiated in; as, to enter into a taste of pleasure or magnificence. Addison.
- To be an ingredient; to form a constituent part. Lead enters into the composition of pewter.
EN'TER, v.t. [Fr. entrer, from entre, between, L. inter, intra, whence intro, to enter; It. entrare; Sp. entrar. The L. inter seems to be in, with the termination ter, as in subter, from sub.]
- To move or pass into a place, in any manner whatever; come or go in; to walk or ride in; to flow in; to pierce or penetrate. A man enters a house; an army enters a city or a camp; a river enters the sea; a sword enters the body; the air enters a room at every crevice.
- To advance into, in the progress of life; as, a youth has entered his tenth year.
- To begin in a business, employment or service; to enlist or engage in; as, the soldier entered the service at eighteen years of age.
- To become a member of; as, to enter college; to enter a society.
- To admit or introduce; as, the youth was entered a member of college.
- To set down in writing; to set an account in a book or register; as, the clerk entered the account or charge in the journal; he entered debt and credit at the time.
- To set down, as a name; to enroll; as, to enter a name in the enlistment.
- To lodge a manifest of goods at the custom house, and gain admittance or permission to land; as, to enter goods. We say also, to enter a ship at the custom house.
EN'TER-DEAL, n.
Mutual dealings. [Not in use.] Spenser.
EN'TER-ED, pp.
Moved in; come in; pierced; penetrated; admitted; introduced; set down in writing.
EN'TER-ING, n.
Entrance; a passing in. 1 Thes. i.
EN'TER-ING, ppr.
- Coming or going in; flowing in; piercing; penetrating; setting down in writing; enlisting; engaging.
- That begins, being the first act, leading to something else; as, an entering wedge.
EN-TER-I'TIS, n. [Gr. εντερον, intestine.]
An inflammation of the intestines.
EN'TER-LACE, v. [See INTERLACE.]
EN'TER-O-CELE, n. [Gr. εντερον, intestine, and κηλη, tumor.]
In surgery, a hernial tumor in any situation, whose contents are intestine.
EN-TER-OL'O-GY, n. [Gr. εντερον, intestine, and λογος, discourse.]
A treatise or discourse on the bowels or internal parts of the body, usually including the contents of the head, breast and belly. Quincy.
EN-TER-OM'PHA-LOS, n. [Gr. εντερον, intestine, and ομφαλος, navel.]
An umbilical hernia whose contents are intestine.
EN-TER-PAR'LANCE, n. [Fr. εντρε, between, and parler, to speak.]
Parley; mutual talk or conversation; conference. Hayward.
EN-TER-PLEAD, v. [See INTERPLEAD.]
EN'TER-PRISE, n. [s as z. Fr. from entreprendre, to undertake; entre, in or between, and prendre, to take, prise, a taking.]
That which is undertaken or attempted to be performed; an attempt; a project attempted; particularly, a bold, arduous or hazardous undertaking, either physical or moral. The attack on Stoney Point was a bold, but successful enterprise. The attempts to evangelize the heathen are noble enterprises. Their hands can not perform their enterprise. Job v.
EN'TER-PRISE, v.t.
To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform. The business must be enterprised this night. Dryden.
EN'TER-PRIS-ED, pp.
Undertaken; attempted; essayed.
EN'TER-PRIS-ER, n.
An adventurer; one who undertakes any projected scheme, especially a bold or hazardous one; a person who engages in important or dangerous designs. Hayward.