[f. ENTER v. + -ING2.] That enters: coming or going in; † beginning.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 99/2. The next moneth of august the thirde day entryng.
1594. Southwell, M. Magd. Fun. Teares, 198. To her now entring and never-ending pleasures.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., V. xlvi. 58. Receives the entring sounds.
1666. Dryden, Ann. Mirab., cxxix. Grim death … urges entering billows as they flow.
1795. Southey, Joan of Arc, IX. 260. Nor heard the coming courser’s sounding hoof, Nor entering footstep.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 57. Streams of entering and departing courtiers.
