ENTRANCE

Definitions

1. 1. 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.
2. 2. Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends. Shak.
3. 3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering. Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. Judg. i. 24.
4. 4. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. "Beware of entrance to a quarrel." Shak. St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill.
5. 5. 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.
6. 6. The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
7. 7. The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten.