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(1):

(n.) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

(2):

(n.) To cut or carve in a ornamental way.

(3):

(n.) To appoint hereditary possessor.

(4):

(n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; - said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.

(5):

(n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

(6):

(n.) That which is entailed.

(7):

(n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.