Obs. [f. the verb.
(The form entre may in some instances belong to this word; but the examples cannot be distinguished from those in which it belongs to ENTRY.)]
1. The action of entering; the power or right of entering; a legal entry; concr. a means or way of entrance; a passage.
c. 1430. Lydg., Bochas, VIII. xiii. (1554), 185 a. Gaue hym enter and possession.
1563. Bp. Gardiner, in Foxe, A. & M., 732 b. My brother of S. Dauids, maie like a champion with his sword in his hand make enter for the rest.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., V. i. 141. His enter and exit shall bee strangling a Snake.
2. [Confused with Fr. enter to graft.]
1693. Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., II. 105. Graffing and Enter, or Ingraffing, are Sinonimous Terms.
