OR UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF THE ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE, &c. INTENDED TO SUPERSEDE THE USE OF OTHER BOOKS OF REFERENCE. ILLUSTRATED WITH THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY PLATES AND MAPS. SECOND EDITION, IN TWENTY-THREE VOLUMES. VOLUME IX. EDINBURGH: FRINTED BY JOHN BROWN, ANCHOR CLOSE, FOR THE PROPRIETORS, AND SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 1816. ΑΕ E56 9 ENCYCLOPÆDIA PERTHENSIS. ENT ENT, Sir George, an eminent English physician, ENT so that it cannot be by any subsequent poffeffor bequeathed at pleasure. I here entail born at Sandwich, in Kent, in 1604. He was educated at Sidney-college, Cambridge; and, afterwards travelling into foreign countries, received the degree of M. D. at Padua. After his return he obtained great practice, was made prefident of the college of physicians in I ondon, and was at laft knighted by Charles II. He was extremely intimate with Dr Harvey; whom he learnedly defended in a piece intitled, Apologia pro Circulatione Sanguinis, contra Æmilium Parifanum. He alfo published, Animadverfiones in Malachiæ Thruftoni; and fome observations in the Philosophical Transactions. Glanville, speaking of his Plus Ultra of the modern improvements in anatomy, numbers Sir George Ent, Dr Glifon, and Dr Wallis, with the most celebrated discoverers in that science. The two former were among the to subjugate; to fubdue. The crown to thee and to thine heirs for ever. Shakejp. 2. To fix unalienably upon any perfon or thing.None ever had a privilege of infallibility entailed to all he said. Digby-The intemperate and unjust tranfmit their bodily infirmities and difeafes to their children, and entail a secret curse upon their estates. Tillotson. 3. To cut. Obsolete. In the following paflage it is neuter. first members of the Royal Society. Sir George Ent died in October 1689. * ENTABLATURE. n. f. [from table.] The * ENTABLEMENT. architrave, frife, and cornice of a pillar; being in effect the extremity of the flooring, which is either supported by pillars, or by a wall, if there be no columns. Harris. ENTABLER, in the manege, the fault of a horse, whose croupe goes before his shoulders in working upon volts; which may be prevented by taking hold of the right rein, keeping your right leg near, and removing your left leg as far from the horse's shoulders as possible. This is always accompanied with another fault called aculer. See ACULER. (1.) * ENTAIL. n. f. [feudeum talliatum, from the French entaille, cut, from tailler, to cut.] 1. The estate entailed or fettled, with regard to the rule of its defcent. 2. The rule of defcent fettled for any estate. 3. Engraver's work; inlay. Obfolete. Well, it appeared to have been of old A work of rich entail, and curious mold, Woven with anticks and wild imagery. Fairy Queen. (2.) ENTAIL, in law, fignifies fee tail, or fee entailed; that is, abridged, curtailed, or limited, to certain conditions. See FEF, and TAIL. The mortal fteel dispiteoully entail'd beaux falls. 'Tis not your inky brows, your black filk hair, Your bugle eyeballs, and your cheek of cream, That can entame my spirits to your worst. Shakesp. * To ENTANGLE. v. a. [A word of uncertain etymology.] 1. To inwarp or ensnare with fomething not easily extricable, as a net; or fomething adhefive, as briars. 2. To lofe in multiplied involutions: as in a labyrinth. 3. To twift, or confuse in fuch a manner as that a feparation cannot easily be made; to make an entangled note. 4. To involve in difficulties; to embarrass; to perplex.-He knew not how to wrestle with defperate contingencies, and so abhorred to be entar.gled in such. Clarendon. 5. To puzzle; to bewilder. The duke, being questioned, neither held filence as he might, nor conftantly denied it, but entangled himself in his doubtful tale. Hayward. - I suppose a great part of the difficulties that perplex mens thoughts, and entangle their understandings, would be easily refolved. Locke. 6. Το enfnare by captious questions or artful talk. The Pharifees took council how they might entangis him in his talk. Matt. xxii. 15. 7. To diftract with variety of cares. No man that warreth e... tangleth himself with the affairs of this life. 2 Ti. ii. 4. 8. To multiply the intricacies or difficul* ENTANGLEMENT. n./. [from entangl ties of a work. * To ENTAIL. v. a. [tailler, to cut; entailler, French.] 1. To fettle the defcent of any eftate, 1. Involution of any thing intricate or adbetiv VOL. IX. PART I. A 2. |