Entail

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun That which is entailed.

II. Entail ·noun To appoint hereditary possessor.

III. Entail ·noun To cut or carve in a ornamental way.

IV. Entail ·noun The rule by which the descent is fixed.

V. Entail ·noun Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

VI. Entail ·noun An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

VII. Entail ·noun 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.