Entrance

·noun The passage, door, or gate, for entering.

II. Entrance ·vt To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.

III. Entrance ·noun The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.

IV. Entrance ·noun Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.

V. Entrance ·noun The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.

VI. Entrance ·vt To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to Enrapture; to Charm.

VII. Entrance ·noun The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.

VIII. Entrance ·noun The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.

IX. Entrance ·noun The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.