2. Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give
entrance to friends. --Shak.
3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city.
--Judg. i. 24.
4. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the
beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a
difficult entrance into business. ``Beware of entrance to
a quarrel.'' --Shak.
St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his
discourses, makes a kind of apology. --Hakewill.
5. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or
goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of
the arrival was made the same day.
6. (Naut.)
(a) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the
water at the water line. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
(b) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel,
below the water line. --Totten.
Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, They bore
from field and to the bed conveyed. --Dryden.
2. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder;
to enrapture; to charm.
And I so ravished with her heavenly note, I stood
entranced, and had no room for thought. --Dryden.