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entree, f., entrance, mouth; opening, inlet of a
channel, pass, etc.); admission; (mil., (adm.)
turning in of stores, etc., to a magazine;
en campagne, (mil.) taking the field;
en galerie, (siege, mil. min.) operations pre
liminary to gallery work proper;
d'ordre, (mil. adm.) paper entry or transfer
of stores (in a change of classification, etc.);
prendre une , (nav.) to make an entrance (into
-reelle, (mil. adm.) actual turning in of stores
themselves;
en solde, epoch at which pay begins to be due;
tuyaud' , (steam,'etc.) admission pipe.
entre-fer, m., (elec.) air-gap.
entre-jambes, m., tread (of a bicycle).
entrelacement, m., weaving, twisting, twining;
wattling.
entrelacer, v. a., to twine, twist, interweave;
to wattle.
entrelacs, m., (cord.) twine; knot;
ft jour, open twine.
entrelardement, m., defect in timber, caused by
freezing of sap.
entre-ligne, m., space between two written lines;
interlineation.
entremfiler, v. a., to intermix, intermingle, interweave.
entremisage, m., (nav.) system of carlings.
entremise, f., mediation, intervention; medium,
agency; small wedge; chock; (nav.) carling.
entrepas, m., (man.) broken, ambling, gait.
entre-pont, m., (nav.) lower deck; 'tween decks.
entreposage, m., bonding (goods, merchandise).
entreposer, v. a., to bond, put in bond; to warehouse,
to store.
entreposeur, m., bonded warehouse keeper.
entrepot, m., intermediate depot; store house;
bonded warehouse or store;
& I' , en , bonded.
entreprendre, v. a., to undertake; (adm.) to contract
for.
entrepreneur, m., contractor; builder.
entreprise, f., enterprise; contract; undertaking
attempt; encroachment;
ft I'
, by contract;
de transport, (Fr. a., adm.) contract for railway
transportation of material.
entrer, v. a. n., to enter, go in, let in; to march in;
to put in, cause to enter, insert;
en campagne, (mil.) to take the field;
& force, to force on;
au service, (mil.) to enter the army.
entre-serrer, v. r., (mach.) to fit too close, to have
insufficient play.
entre-sol, m., intermediate story.
entretailler, v. r., (hipp.) to cut, to interfere.
entretaillure, f., (hipp.) cut, speedy cut, crepance,
crepane.
entretenir, v. a. r., to keep, maintain; keep up,
keep in repair, in good order; to maintain,
support.
entretien, m., support, maintenance, care, preservation;
maintenance in good, in working, order;
des troupes, (mil.) subsistence of troops.
entretoise, f., cross-bar, -piece, -beam; stay, rib;
(art.) transom (of a gun carriage); transom,
crossbar (of a gin); (mach.) stay; (cons.) batten;
(pont.) girder, floor girder; (harn.) cross-bar of a
bit.
(The following terms, except where otherwise
indicated, relate to artillery carriages:)
arriere, rear transom;
avant, front transom;
de bout, hind transom (of an ammunition
wagon);
de chassis, chassis transom;
ft collet, axle transom (of a winch);
de couche, middle transom;
de crosse, trail transom, rear transom;
entretoise de devant, fore bolster, front transom;
crossbar of an ammunition wagon*
de fitche, trail transom;
de limonierc, shaft-bar of a limber;
lunette, de lunette, lunette transom;
de mire, middle transom;
pivot, pivot transom;
de plaque de garde, axle-guard stay;
de poinlage, v. de mire;
de repos, v. de mire;
de support, v. de mire;
de tete d'affut, front transom;
de voUe, v. avant.
entretoisement, m., bracing, counterbracing;
staying (of a boiler); (cons.) battening; (art.
the bracing or stifferung of a gun carriage by a
transom.
entretoiser, v. a., to batten; to brace, cross-brace.
entrevoie, f., (r. r.) space between tracks (of a
double-track line) .
entr'ouvert, a., half-open, ajar;
cheval , (hipp.) shoulder-pitched horse, horse
sprained in shoulder joint.
entr'ouverture, f., (hipp.) shoulder pitch; sprain
of the shoulder joint.
entr'ouvrir, v. a. r., to half-open, gape; be or
set ajar.
enture, f., peg, pin: pin of a peg-ladder; (sm. a.)
splice, piece let into a stock (to strengthen or
repair it); (carp.) scarf joint (is also applied to
iron beams or pieces);
ft double mortaise etfaux tenon, doweled joint
(pieces vertical);
& endent, (carp.) square notching, square
notched scarf joint;
enfausse coupe, ordinary oblique scarf joint
(pieces vertical);
ft tenaille, (carp.) rabbet joint (pieces vertical
and assembled laterally);
ft tenon et mortaise, (carp.) ordinary mortise
and tenon in vertical pieces.
envagonner, v. a., (r. r.) to put on the train, in
the cars.
ahir, v. a., to overrun, break in upon; to reach
all the parts of (as, fire, of a envahir,
burning building;
water, of a sinking ship, etc.); to encroach upon
(as the sea upon the land); (mil.) to invade,
overrun.
envahissement, -n., overrunning; encroachment;
extension to all the parts of; (mil.) invasion,
overrunning.
envahisseur, m., invader.
envaser, v. a. r., to sink in the mud; to stick in the
mud.
enveloppe, f., envelope, cover, covering, casing;
letter envelope; (mach., steam) jacket, case,
cleading; outer shell or casing of a double-shelled
cylinder; (art.) coating of a projectile, the shell
or casing of a shrapnel; (r.j.art.) water-jacket;
(fort.)
continued counterguard, sillon; (mil.
min.) main gallery of a countermine; (ball.) the
zone between the noyau, q. v., and the circle
of twice the radius of the latter;
de cylindre, (steam, etc.) cylinder jacket;
isolante, (eke.) insulating cover (as, of a
cable, etc.);
de pied, (hipp.) flesh, envelope, of the foot;
keratogenous membrane;
ft pinces, (arl.) clip-sleeve, of a fuse;
puissance d' , (man.) the grip or clasp of the
thighs (of the seat);
de vapeur, (steam) steam-jacket.
enveloppfce, f., (fort.) sillon.
enveloppement, m., action of enveloping, surrounding,
etc.; (mil.) an enveloping movement;
stralegique. (mil.) strategical envelopment,
compelling the enemy to fight.
envelopper, v. a., to envelop, surround, inclose,
cover, wrap up; (steam) to lag, toclead; (mil.) to
execute an enveloping movement, to invest,
hem in.
envergure, f., stretch of a pair of compasses; (siege)
outflanking (of the trenches).
envers, m., wrong side;
ft I' , wrong side up, inside out, upside down.