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Definition of Engrails
1. engrail [v] - See also: engrail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engrails
Literary usage of Engrails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries by John Woodward (1896)
"JAMES DURHAM, second son of the family of DURHAM of Grange, engrails the fess of his
... while the line of FORREST-LANDRY in Flanders engrails the chief. ..."
2. Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by John William Wallace, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"... but which also engrails on a contract of sale a stipulation or obligation
which is inconsistent with the rule of the common law on the subject. ..."
3. The Law and Practice of Heraldry in Scotland by George Seton (1863)
"... makes the chief embattled instead of plain; while Elliot of Stobs engrails
the plain bend which forms the bearing of the principal family of the name. ..."
4. Heraldry, Historical and Popular by Charles Boutell (1864)
"... barry of six or and vert, over all a bend gu.; Sir HUGH LE DESPENCER charges
his sable bend with three mullets arg.; and Sir PHILIP engrails the bend ..."
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