Entail

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. That which is entailed. Hence: (Law)

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

3. The rule by which the descent is fixed. A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. Hume.

4. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.] "A work of rich entail." Spenser.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. 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. Allowing them to entail their estates. Hume. I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. Shak.

2. To appoint hereditary possessor. [Obs.] To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. Shak.

3. To cut or carve in a ornamental way. [Obs.] Entailed with curious antics. Spenser.