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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Entry \En"try\, n.; pl {Entries}. [OE. entree, entre, F.
entr['e]e, fr entrer to enter See {Enter}, and cf
{Entr['e]e}.]
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.
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.
A notary made an entry of this act --Bacon.
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.
A straight, long entry to the temple led. --Dryden.
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.
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.
{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.
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