Entrail vs Engrail - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between entrail and engrail

is that entrail is (archaic) to interweave or bind while engrail is to form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines or engrail can be to variegate or spot, as with hail.

As a noun entrail

is (usually|in the plural) an internal organ of an animal.

entrail

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To interweave or bind.

* {{quote-book, 1590, , The Faerie Queene, section=Book III Canto VI citation

, 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 ^{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.

* {{quote-book, 1885, , The Bloody Heart citation

, 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.

''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."

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

(usually, in the plural) An internal organ of an animal.

(obsolete) Entanglement; fold.

Synonyms

* innard, gut, tharm, intestine

Anagrams

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engrail

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(en verb)

To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

(Parnell)

Etymology 2

(etyl)

Verb

(en verb)

To variegate or spot, as with hail.

* Chapman

a caldron new engrailed with twenty hues

(heraldry, archaic) To indent with small curves.

* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.120:

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.

(Webster 1913)