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.