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ENTAIL (from Fr. tattler, to cut; the old derivation from tales haered.es is now abandoned), in law, a h'mited form of succession (q.v.). In architecture, the term " entail " denotes an ornamental device sunk in the ground of stone or brass, and subsequently f ...

ENTASIS (from Gr. kvreiveiv, to stretch a line or bend a bow), in architecture, the increment given to the column (q.v.), to correct the optical illusion which produces an apparent hollowness in an extended straight line. It was referred to by Vitruvius (iii.

... ning comes first, while poison and hanging are more frequent than other methods entailing effusion of blood and disfigurement of the person. The methods used in England and Wales by suicides during 1888-1897, and in Scotland during the years 1881-1897, are giv ...

... h service could be beneficially worked by the Post Office, and whether it would entail any very large expenditure on the Post Office beyond the purchase of the rights. At that time the total number of places supplied with telegraphic communication by all the c ...

... the white-tailed jack-rabbit, pallid vole, sage hen, sharp-tailed grouse and greentailed townee; the large Columbia ground-squirrel (Spermophilus columbianus) is common in that part of the zone which is west of the Rocky Mountains, but east of the Rockies it i ...

... de to feel the consequences of having become a mainland power, the difficulties entailed by holding possessions which others coveted, and the weakness of a land frontier. To the west the new duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti, was steadily piecing together ...