Meaning

(transitive) To make rough..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make rough.
2. (intransitive) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
3. (transitive) To variegate or spot, as with hail.
4. (transitive, heraldry, archaic) To indent with small curves.

Example Sentences

Fine gold engrail'd adorns the figur'd floor

a caldron new engrailed with twenty hues

He crossed through the high grass and went up the slope, climbing with handholds in the new turf until he gained the crest and turned to look down on the river and the city beyond, casting a gray glance along that varied world, the pieced plowland, the houses, the odd grady of the small metropolis against the green and blooming hills and the flat bow of the river like a serpentine trench poured with dull slag save where the wind engrailed its face and it shimmered lightly in the sun.

Word Forms

• engrails
• engrailing
• engrailed

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When Should You Use Engrail?

Use engrail when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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