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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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... replied, "Yes, I hear perfectly." Then the voice went on, "Well, they have that letter—a little note—not over one hundred words, and with no date on it, and the man who has it also has a photograph of page 234 of a certain ledger in the county treasurer's office for 1879, and there is an entry there in your handwriting, Mr. Hendricks; and he has had them both enlarged to show that the handwriting of the note and of the county book are the same; isn't that mean, Mr. Hendricks?" Hendricks coughed into the transmitter, and ...

— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White

... his birth is not given, but it was probably in 1579, as it appears by the portrait prefixed to that work that he was aged 37 years in 1616. We are able to add also that the rector of the Willoughby Rectory, Alford, finds in the register an entry of the baptism of John, son of George Smith, under date of Jan. 9, 1579. His biographers, following his account, represent him as of ancient lineage: "His father actually descended from the ancient Smiths of ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

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— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

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— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various

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— Sea Urchins • W. W. Jacobs

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