[f. ENTER v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the vb. ENTER in various senses.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 2139, Ariadne. His dwellynge Right faste bi the dore at his entrynge.
1388. Wyclif, 1 Kings xvi. 4. The eldere men of the citee … camen to hym … and seiden, Whether thin entryng is pesible?
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 274. In the entrynge of the vij dayes iourney of this pilgrimage of perfeccyon.
1553. Latimer, Serm. Lord’s Pr., II. 3. ‘Our Father.’ These words pertain not to the petitions, they be but an entering.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. iv. (1664), 22. In the entring of the Spring they might have plenty of poudred beef.
1702. Lond. Gaz., No. 3839/4. The Horses to be kept in that Parish from the Entring to the Running.
1714. Stringer (title), The Experienc’d Huntsman,… With some particular Directions concerning the Breeding and Entring of Hounds.
1842. H. E. Manning, Serm. (1848), I. i. 3. The entering in of sin proves the presence of an Evil Being.
1880. McCarthy, Own Times, III. 334. From the entering of Moscow to the arrival at St. Helena.
† b. To give entering to: to admit. Obs.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), II. 192 a/2. In the mornyng gyuyng to hym entrynge he sayd to hym.
† 2. The place where one enters; an entrance; a door, etc. Of a bodily organ: An opening. Obs.
1382. Wyclif, Ezek. viii. 5. The ydol of envye in that entrynge.
c. 1540. Boorde, The boke for to Lerne, B iij a. The gate howse in the mydse of the fronte entrynge into the place.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg. It [testis fellis] hath two entrynges or neckes betwene whiche is a dystaunce.
3. Attrib., as entering-breach, -clerk, -door, -landmark, -room, -stone; also Naut. with reference to the means of entrance into a vessel, as entering-hatchway, -ladder, -port, -rope; and Mech. in the names of certain tools, as entering-chisel, -file.
1562. Phaër, Æneid, IX. B b iiij b. Some seeke their *entryng breach on skalyng ladders clambring quicke.
1701. Lond. Gaz., No. 3723/4. Whereby *Entring-clerks and others may be furnished with proper Words. Ibid. (1723), No. 6191/2. Each Horse … paying … Half a Crown to the entring Clerk.
1886. Sutherst, in Pall Mall Gaz., 29 April, 2/1. Chained to the desk of an entering clerk.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VIII. (1682), 353. The chiefest Mosque in it … having thirty four *entring Doors.
1626. Capt. Smith, Accid. Yng. Sea-men, 13. An *entring ladder.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxxi. (1856), 272. This cape is the great *entering landmark of the northern shores of Lancaster Sound.
1758. J. Blake, Plan Mar. Syst., 2. The *entring ports.
1830. Marryat, King’s Own, I. vii. 100. Out of the larboard entering-port.
1886. Daily News, 20 Oct., 6/2. The huge press that stood in the *entering room … went for a beggarly six shillings.
1627. Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., vi. 27. The *Entering rope is tied by the ships side, to hold by as you goe vp the Entering ladder, cleats, or wailes.
1596–7. S. Finche, in Ducarel, Hist. Croydon (1783), 153 b. There is space … for a *enteringe stone of eache side.
