EN'TRY, n. The passage by which persons enter a house or other building.
1. The act of entering entrance ingress as the entry of a person into a house or city the entry of a river into the sea or a lake the entry of air into the blood the entry of a spear into the flesh.
2. The act of entering and taking possession of lands or other estate.
3. The act of committing to writing, or of recording in a book. Make an entry of every sale, of every debt and credit.
4. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the custom house, to procure license to land goods or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
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