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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Entail \En*tail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Entailed}; p. pr & vb
n. {Entailing}.] [OE. entailen to carve, OF entailler See
{Entail}, n.]
1. 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
an heritage.
Allowing them to entail their estates. --Hume.
I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs
forever. --Shak.
2. To appoint hereditary possessor. [Obs.]
To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. --Shak.
3. To cut or carve in a ornamental way [Obs.]
Entailed with curious antics. --Spenser.
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