entrail
Verb
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Verb
entrail (entrails, present participle entrailing; past and past participle entrailed)
- (archaic) To interweave or bind.
- 1598, William Cecil, letter to his son, reprinted in Annals of the reformation and establishment of religion, 1824, by John Strype, page 479,
- Trust not any with thy life, credit, or estate: for it is mere folly for a man to entrail himself to his friend; as though, occasion being offered, he shall not dare to become his enemy.
- 1598, William Cecil, letter to his son, reprinted in Annals of the reformation and establishment of religion, 1824, by John Strype, page 479,
- (heraldry) To outline in black.
- A cross entrailed.
- 1847, Henry Gough, John Henry Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table ..., Oxford, Page 124,
- "Entrailed: outlined, always with black lines. See Adumbration, and Cross entrailed."
- 1775, Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, An Introduction to Heraldry: Containing the Origin and Use of Arms; Rules ..., H. Washbourne, Page 122,
- "Entrailed, a Cross, P.7, n.20, Lee says, the colour need not be named, for it is always sable."
entrail (plural entrails)
- (usually used in the plural) singular of entrails#English|entrails; an internal organ of an animal.
- (archaic) Entanglement; fold.
- Russian: вну́тренности
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