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▸ verb: (transitive) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
▸ noun: That which is entailed.
▸ noun: An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
▸ noun: The rule by which the descent is fixed.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
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