Entrail vs Viscera - What's the difference?
entrail | viscera |
(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.
Collectively, the internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities, such as the liver, heart, or stomach.
The intestines.
As nouns the difference between entrail and viscera
is that entrail is (usually|in the plural) an internal organ of an animal while viscera is viscus.As a verb entrail
is (archaic) to interweave or bind.entrail
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(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.
citation
- ''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."