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Definition of Engrailed
1. a. Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.
Definition of Engrailed
1. Adjective. (heraldry) having an edge or border indented with semicircles with points outwards. Usually the saltire and the dexter edge of the border of the shield both have cuts along their entire length the shape of crescent moons. ¹
2. Noun. A European moth, ''Ectropis crepuscularia''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Engrailed
1. engrail [v] - See also: engrail
Medical Definition of Engrailed
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Engrailed
Literary usage of Engrailed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In its earliest form the line which a roll of arms will describe indifferently
as indented or engrailed takes almost invariably the form to which the name ..."
2. An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and by James Balfour Paul (1893)
"Arg. a cross engrailed sa., in the dexter chief point a cock gu. ... Arg. a cross
engrailed sa. (2nd and 3rd quarters of ist and 4th grand quarters). ..."
3. The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-taylor of London, from A.D by Henry Machin, John Gough Nichols (1848)
"Arms, Azure, a saltire engrailed between four trefoils slipped or, ... Arms,
Gules, on a cross engrailed argent between four unicorn's heads ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The most commonly found is the line engrailed, which for the student of medieval
armory must be associated with the line indented. ..."
5. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"34), a lozenge perforated, and partition-lines in use, viz., the engrailed,
inverted, \ originally links of chain-armour. ordinary engrailed has the points ..."
6. The Visitation of London in the Year 1568: Taken by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux by Robert Cooke (1869)
"Or, on a fess gules between three trefoils slipped ermines, an eagle displayed
of the field within a bordure engrailed azure. CREST. ..."
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