Entrail - What does it mean?
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(archaic) To interweave or bind.
* {{quote-book, 1590, , The Faerie Queene, section=Book III Canto VI
, passage=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. }}
* 1598 , , letter to his son, reprinted in Annals of the reformation and establishment of religion
* {{quote-book, 1885, , The Bloody Heart
, passage=Himself hid by entrailing foliage, / Betwixt whose leafy meshes he could see / That false pair's dalliance and badinage.}}
(heraldry) To outline in black.
* 1847 , Henry Gough, John Henry Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table ... , Oxford, Page 124,
* 1775 , Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, An Introduction to Heraldry: Containing the Origin and Use of Arms; Rules ... , H. Washbourne, Page 122,
(usually, in the plural) An internal organ of an animal.
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(obsolete) Entanglement; fold.
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(en verb)citation
1824, by [[w:John Strype, 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.
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- ''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."