Meaning

(archaic) To interweave or bind..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) To interweave or bind.
2. (heraldry) To outline in black.
3. (usually used in the plural) singular of entrails; an internal organ of an animal.
4. (archaic) Entanglement; fold.

Example Sentences

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.

And in the thickest covert of that shade / There was a pleasant arbour, not by art / But of the trees' own inclination made, / With wanton ivy twine entrailed athwart, / And eglantine and caprifole among, / Fashioned above within their inmost part / That neither Phoebus' beams could through them throng / Nor AEolus' sharp blast could work them any wrong.

Himself hid by entrailing foliage, / Betwixt whose leafy meshes he could see / That false pair's dalliance and badinage.

A cross entrailed.

"Entrailed: outlined, always with black lines. See Adumbration, and Cross entrailed."

"Entrailed, a Cross, P.7, n.20, Lee says, the colour need not be named, for it is always sable."

She might even bust an entrail if she went on a little farther in the official code

Those blackguards have no more respect for an entrail, or a sinew, or a vital organ, than if they were gutting dog-fish.

Word Forms

• entrails
• entrailing
• entrailed

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