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   Entire (?), a. [F. entier, L. integer untouched, undiminished, entire; pref. in-, negative + the root of tangere to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Integer.]
   1. Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, “the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance.”
   
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   That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James i. 4.
   
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   With strength entire and free will armed. Milton.
   
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   One entire and perfect chrysolite. Shak.
   
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   2. Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.
   
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   Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak.
   
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   No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.
   
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   3. (Bot.) (a) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla. (b) Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.
   
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   4. Not gelded; -- said of a horse.
   
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   5. Internal; interior. [Obs.]  Spenser.
   
   Syn. -- See Whole, and Radical.
   
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   Entire, n.
   1. Entirely. “Too long to print in entire.”  Thackeray.
   
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   2. (Brewing) A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer. [Eng.] “Foker's Entire.”  Thackeray.
   
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