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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'entail' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions entail noun  That which is entailed. Hence: An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. The rule by which the descent is fixed. :"A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates." — Hume. (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. "A work of rich entail." — Spenser. Translations:  Etymology: From entaile carving from entaille, French, an incision, from entailler to cut away; prefix en- Latin + tailler to cut; late Latin feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or limited.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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