En*trance" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entranced (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Entrancing (?).]
[Pref. en- + trance.] 1. To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
Him, still
entranced and in a litter laid,
They bore from field and to
the bed conveyed.
Dryden. 2. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.
And I so ravished
with her heavenly note,
I stood entranced, and had no room for thought.
Dryden.
En"trance (?), n. [OF. entrance, fr. OF. & F. entrant, p. pr. of entrer to enter. See Enter.]
1. 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.
2. Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as,
to give entrance to friends.
Shak.
3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city.
Judg. i.
24. 4. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with
which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. "Beware of entrance to a quarrel."
Shak.
St. Augustine,
in the entrance of one of his
discourses, makes a kind of apology.
Hakewill. 5. The
causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same
day.
6. (Naut.)
(a) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the
water line. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (b) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
Totten.
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