ENTRAPPED
ENTRAP'PED, participle passive Ensnared; entangled.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ENTRAP'PED, participle passive Ensnared; entangled.
ENTRAP'PING, participle present tense Ensnaring; involving in difficulties.
ENTREA'AT, verb transitive [Latin tracto, to handle, feel, treat, use, manage.]1. To ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to solicit press...
ENTRE'AT, verb intransitive To make an earnest petition or request.The Janizaries entreated for them, as valiant men.1. To offer a treaty. [Not used.]2. To treat; to discourse. ...
ENTRE'ATANCE, noun Entreaty; solicitation.
ENTRE'ATED, participle passive Earnestly supplicated, besought or solicited; importuned; urgently requested.1. Prevailed on by urgent solicitation; consenting to grant what is d...
ENTRE'ATER, noun One that entreats, or asks earnestly.
ENTRE'ATING, participle present tense Earnestly asking; pressing with request or prayer; importuning.1. Treating; using.
ENTRE'ATIVE, adjective Pleading; treating.
ENTRE'ATY, noun Urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation; supplication.The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth roughly. Proverbs 18:1.
ENTREMETS, noun [Latin intromissum.] Small plates set between the principal dishes at table, or dainty dishes.
ENTREPOT, noun A warehouse, staple or magazine, for the deposit of goods.
ENTRHO'NED, participle passive Seated on a throne; exalted to an elevated place.
ENTRICK, verb transitive [from trick.] To trick; to deceive; to entangle.
EN'TROCHITE, noun [Gr. 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 se...
EN'TRY, noun The passage by which persons enter a house or other building.1. The act of entering; entrance; ingress; as the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of ...
ENTU'NE, verb transitive [from tune.] To tune.
ENTWINE, verb transitive [from twine.] To twine; to twist round.
ENTWIST', verb transitive [from twist.] To twist or wreath round.
ENU'BILATE, verb transitive [Latin e and nubila, mist, clouds.]To clear from mist, clouds or obscurity. [Not in use.]
ENU'BILOUS, adjective Clear from fog, mist or clouds.
ENU'CLEATE, verb transitive [Latin enucleo; e and nucleus, a kernel.] Properly, to take out the kernel. Hence,1. To clear from knots or lumps, to clear from intricacy; to disent...
ENU'CLEATED, participle passive Cleared from knots; disclosed; explained.
ENU'CLEATING, participle present tense Clearing from knots; explaining.
ENUCLEA'TION, noun The act of clearing from knots; a disentangling.Neither air, nor water, nor food seem directly to contribute any thing to the enucleation of this disease [the...
ENU'MERATE, verb transitive [Latin enumero; e and numero, numerus, number.]To count or tell, number by number; to reckon or mention a number of things, each separately; as, to e...
ENU'MERATED, participle passive Counted or told, number by number; reckoned or mentioned by distinct particulars.