Entail /(?)/

1. That which is entailed. (Law)

   A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.

2. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Entailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Entailing

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.

   I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.

2. To appoint hereditary possessor. [Obs.]

   To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.

3. To cut or carve in an ornamental way. [Obs.]

   Entailed with curious antics.