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▪ I. entering, vbl. n.|ˈɛntərɪŋ|
[f. enter v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the vb. enter in various senses.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 2139 Ariadne, His dwellynge Right faste bi the dore at his entrynge. 1388Wyclif 1 Kings xvi. 4 The eldere men of the citee..camen to hym..and seiden, Whether thin entryng is pesible? 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 274 In the entrynge of the vij dayes iourney of this pilgrimage of perfeccyon. 1553Latimer Serm. Lord's Pr. II. 3 ‘Our Father’. These words pertain not to the petitions, they be but an entering. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. iv, In the entering of the spring. 1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3839/4 The Horses to be kept in that Parish from the Entring to the Running. 1714Stringer (title), The Experienc'd Huntsman..with directions concerning the Breeding and Entring of Hounds. 1842H. E. Manning Serm. (1848) I. i. 3 The entering in of sin proves the presence of an Evil Being. 1880McCarthy Own Times III. 334 From the entering of Moscow to the arrival at St. Helena.
†b. to give entering to: to admit. Obs.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) ii. 192 a/2, In the mornyng gyuyng to hym entrynge he sayd to hym.
†2. The place where one enters; an entrance; a door, etc. Of a bodily organ: An opening. Obs.
1382Wyclif Ezek. viii. 5 The ydol of envye in that entrynge. c1540Boorde The boke for to Lerne B iij a, The gate howse in the mydse of the fronte entrynge into the place. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., It [testis fellis] hath two entrynges or neckes betwene whiche is a dystaunce.
3. attrib., as entering-breach, entering-clerk, entering-door, entering-landmark, entering-room, entering-stone; also Naut. with reference to the means of entrance into a vessel, as entering-hatchway, entering-ladder, entering-port, entering-rope; and Mech. in the names of certain tools, as entering-chisel, entering-file; entering edge Aeronaut., that edge of a surface which is the front edge in flight; now called leading edge.
1562Phaër æneid ix. B b iiij b, Some seeke their *entryng breach on skalyng ladders clambring quicke.
1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3723/4 Whereby *Entring-clerks and others may be furnished with proper Words. 1723Ibid. No. 6191/2 Each Horse..paying..Half a Crown to the entring Clerk. 1886Pall Mall G. 29 Apr. 2/1 Chained to the desk of an entering clerk.
1632Lithgow Trav. viii. (1682) 353 The chiefest Mosque in it..having thirty four *entring Doors.
1908H. Maxim Artif. & Nat. Flight vii. 100 Our planes must have a certain length of *entering edge—that is, the length of the front edge must bear a certain relation to the load lifted.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 13 An *entring ladder.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxi. (1856) 272 This cape is the great *entering landmark of the northern shores of Lancaster Sound.
1758J. Blake Plan Mar. Syst. 2 The *entring ports. 1830Marryat King's Own vii, Out of the larboard entering-port.
1886Daily News 20 Oct. 6/2 The huge press that stood in the *entering room..went for a beggarly six shillings.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. vi. 27 The *Entering rope is tied by the ships side, to hold by as you goe vp the Entering ladder, cleats, or wailes.
1596–7S. Finche in Ducarel Hist. Croydon (1783) 153 b, There is space..for a *enteringe stone of eache side.
▪ II. ˈentering, ppl. a.
[f. enter v. + -ing2.]
That enters; coming or going in; † beginning.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 99/2 The next moneth of august the thirde day entryng. 1594Southwell M. Magd. Fun. Teares 198 To her now entring and never-ending pleasures. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. v. xlvi, Receives the ent'ring sounds. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. cxxix, Grim death..urges entering billows as they flow. 1795Southey Joan of Arc ix. 260 Nor heard the coming courser's sounding hoof, Nor entering footstep. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 57 Streams of entering and departing courtiers. |