entire

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (used of domestic animals) sexually competent

   an entire horse

2. 2
   adj

   Whole; complete.

   We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.

3. 3
   adj

   Having a smooth margin without any indentation.

   Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.

4. 4
   adj

   Not gelded.

   On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.

5. 5
   adj

   Morally whole; pure; sheer.

   See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee / wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.

6. 6
   adj

   Internal; interior.

   Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire

7. 7
   noun

   The whole of something; the entirety.

   In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.

8. 8
   noun

   An uncastrated horse; a stallion.

   He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.

Etymology

From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer.