entails
verb
- 1
To imply or require.
“This activity will entail careful attention to detail.”
- 2
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 a heritage.
- 3
To appoint hereditary possessor.
- 4
To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
noun
- 1
That which is entailed. Hence:
- 2
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
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