noun that which is entailed.
2. entail ·noun to appoint hereditary possessor.
3. entail ·noun to cut or carve in a ornamental way.
4. entail ·noun the rule by which the descent is fixed.
5. entail ·noun delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
6. entail ·noun an estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
7. entail ·noun 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.