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noun

Entry n. (pl. entries)

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."

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."

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.

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.

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"Entry" Quotes from Famous Books

... entry of the Hotel Boncoeur, her tears again mastered her. It was a dark, narrow passage, with a gutter for the dirty water running alongside the wall; and the stench which she again encountered there ...

— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

... bamboo, open to the road, and the place where Mr. Judson received all occasional visitors and inquirers; the second or middle one, a large airy room, occupied on Sundays for preaching and on week days as a school-room; and the last division, a mere entry opening into the garden leading to the mission-house. During the week Mrs. Judson occupied the middle room, giving instruction in reading, &c., to a class of males and females; and also in conversing with female inquirers. ...

— Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons • Arabella W. Stuart

... rushed up the blackness of a narrow entry to stand still awhile, and recover strength for fresh running. For a time nothing but heavy pants and gasps were heard amongst them. No one knew his neighbour, and their good feeling, so lately abused and preyed upon, made them full of suspicion. The first who spoke ...

— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. II • Elizabeth Gaskell

... heights four or five miles above Quebec if he could do so by surprise. Again, even so early in the siege as July 18 he had been chafing at what he called the 'coldness' of the fleet about pushing up beyond Quebec. The entry in his private diary for that day is: 'The Sutherland and Squirrell, two transports, and two armed sloops passed the narrow passage between Quebec and Levy without losing a man.' Next day, his entry is more scathing still: 'Reconnoitred the country immediately above Quebec and found ...

— The Winning of Canada: A Chronicle of Wolf • William Wood

... "Why," says Mr. Croftes, "I never discovered it; nor was it ever intimated to me that it had been stopped from October, 1773, till the other day, when I was informed that I ought not to have made an entry of the last payments." These were his expressions. You will find the whole relation in the Bengal Appendix, printed by the orders of the Court of Directors. When Mr. Croftes was asked a very natural question, "Who first told ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XII. (of XII.) • Edmund Burke

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