[v. en-teyl; n. en-teyl, en-teyl] 
| 1. | to cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence: a loss entailing no regret. |
| 2. | to impose as a burden: Success entails hard work. |
| 3. | to limit the passage of (a landed estate) to a specified line of heirs, so that it cannot be alienated, devised, or bequeathed. |
| 4. | to cause (anything) to descend to a fixed series of possessors. |
| 5. | the act of entailing. |
| 6. | the state of being entailed. |
| 7. | any predetermined order of succession, as to an office. |
| 8. | something that is entailed, as an estate. |
| 9. | the rule of descent settled for an estate. |
teɪl