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To imply, require, or invoke.

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 a heritage.

(obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.

(obsolete) {{rfv-sense|en}}To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

That which is entailed.

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

The rule by which the descent is fixed.

(obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.