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Entrail vs Entail - What's the difference?

entrail | entail |

In obsolete terms the difference between entrail and entail

is that entrail is entanglement; fold while entail is delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

As verbs the difference between entrail and entail

is that entrail is to interweave or bind while entail is to imply or require.

As nouns the difference between entrail and entail

is that entrail is an internal organ of an animal while entail is that which is entailed. Hence.

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.
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  • (obsolete) Entanglement; fold.
    • Synonyms
    * innard, gut, tharm, intestine

    Anagrams

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    entail

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To imply or require.
    • This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
  • To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
  • * Allowing them to entail their estates. — .
  • * I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. — Shakespeare
  • (obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
  • * To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. — Shakespeare
  • (obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
  • * Entailed with curious antics. — .

    • Derived terms

    * entailment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is entailed. Hence:
    • An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
    The rule by which the descent is fixed.
  • * A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. — .
  • (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
  • * A work of rich entail. — .

    • References

    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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