n. 1. Antiquity; what is ancient. [ 1913 Webster ]

They contain not word of ancientry. West. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Old age; also, old people. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Wronging the ancientry. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Aëronautics) The angle between the tangent to the advancing edge (of an aërocurve) and the line of motion; -- contrasted with angle of trail, which is the angle between the tangent to the following edge and the line of motion. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. argenterie, fr. argent silver, L. argentum. ] Silver plate or vessels. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. charpenterie, OF. also carpenterie. See Carpenter. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Sentry. [ Obs. ] Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A town in the county of Warwick, England. [ 1913 Webster ]

To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct. --
Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and used for embroidery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Entries [ OE. entree, entre, F. entrée, fr. entrer to enter. See Enter, and cf. Entrée. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A notary made an entry of this act. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A straight, long entry to the temple led. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Com.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) (a) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them. (b) A putting upon record in proper form and order. (c) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bill of entry. See under Bill. --
Double entry,
Single entry. See Bookkeeping. --
Entry clerk (Com.), a clerk who makes the original entries of transactions in a business. --
Writ of entry (Law), a writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has unlawfully entered and continues in possession. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Am entrance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So great an entryng and so large. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. genterie, gentrie, noble birth, nobility, cf. gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. genteleri high-mindedness. See Gent, a., Gentle, a. ] 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. [ Obs. ] “Pride of gentrie.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

She conquers him by high almighty Jove,
By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Courtesy; civility; complaisance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To show us so much gentry and good will. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary; also called entry word, headword, and lemma.
Syn. -- citation form, entry word, headword, lemma. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

☞ In different languages, different wordforms, such as cases for verbs, may be taken as the main entry word. In English dictionaries, it is the infinitive form, but in latin dictionaries it is usually the first person singular present. [ PJC ]

n. An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) A sentry who guards the entrance or approach to a place; an outguard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. post- + entry. ] 1. A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bookkeeping) An additional or subsequent entry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A second or new entry; as, a reentry into public life. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Astronautics) To enter (the Earth's atmosphere) after having passed beyond the atmosphere, as when in orbit or returning from another planet. [ PJC ]

Card of reentry, (Whist), a card that by winning a trick will bring one the lead at an advanced period of the hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Sentires [ Probably from OF. senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF. sente. See Sentinel. ] 1. (Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Guard; watch, as by a sentinel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep,
Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A winding like a serpent's. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A body of students. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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