Definition of entail

• n. - That which is entailed.
• n. - An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
• n. - The rule by which the descent is fixed.
• n. - Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
• n. - 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.
• n. - To appoint hereditary possessor.
• n. - To cut or carve in a ornamental way.