Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city.
Judg. i. 24.
4. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. "Beware of entrance to a quarrel." Shak.
St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.
Hakewill.
5. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
6. (Naut.) (a) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (b) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten.
En*trance" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entranced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Entrancing (?).] [Pref. en- + trance.] 1. To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
Him, still entranced and in a litter laid,
They bore from field and to the bed conveyed.
Dryden.
2. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.
And I so ravished with her heavenly note,
I stood entranced, and had no room for thought.
Dryden.
En*trance"ment (?), n. The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway.
En"trant (?), n. [See Entrance, n.] 1. One who enters; a beginner. "The entrant upon life." Bp. Terrot.