Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Heraldry Indented along the edge with small curves.
- adjective Having an edge or a margin formed by a series of raised dots.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, cut into concave semicircular indents: said of a line and also of the bearing, such as a fesse, bordure, or the like, whose edge is broken in this way: as, a bordure engrailed. Also
engreslé .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective heraldry having an
edge orborder indented withsemicircles withpoints outwards. Usually thesaltire and thedexter edge of the border of theshield both have cuts along their entire length the shape ofcrescent moons . - noun A
European moth , Ectropis crepuscularia.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The posterior half of the wing is the domain of expression of a molecule called engrailed, which is part of the machinery that makes the back half a back half.
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In half an hour we were at the last crest, in a place where the Turks had dug trenches and stoned up an elaborate outpost of engrailed sangars which on this black new-moon night of our raid were empty.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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In his rude hovel, with all the sublimities of Nature around him, this child of the wilderness looks up to the summits of the Atlas, "with peaky tops engrailed," and immediately thereafter looks down again to attend to the engrailing of his neat five-franc pieces, which can hardly be told from the genuine.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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On a chevron engrailed, two lioncels rampant, between as many crescents.
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Azure a lion rampant or, with a crescent for difference, impaling argent a cross engrailed flory sable between four Cornish choughs proper -- Crest, on a wreath of the colours a Saracen's head full-faced, couped at the shoulders proper, wreathed round the temples and tied or and azure.
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A manuscript ordinary, by Glover, in my possession, contains another, which is somewhat like that on the picture, being -- Argent on a fess engrailed sable, bearing three crosses patées, Gules, as many martlets on the field.
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Abbey, a cross engrailed, and showing the head of a crosier above the shield in the centre.
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On a chevron engrailed, between two crescents, as many lioncels rampant.
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= -- The arms are gules, within a border argent, a cross engrailed or, and are so given by Willis in his _Seals of
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The coat of the Hobys of Bisham, as correctly given, is "Argent, within a border engrailed sable, three spindles, threaded in fesse, gules."
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