2 entries under this word

Engrail

En-grāil', v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. ENGRAILED; p. pr. & vb. n. ENGRAILING.] [Fr. engrêler, from grêle, hail. See GRAIL.]

Sense 1. To variegate or spot, as with hail; to indent or make ragged at the edges, as if broken with hail. “A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues.” Chapman.

Sense 2. (Her.) To indent with curved lines, as a line of division or an ordinary. Carew.

En-grāil', v. i.

verbintransitive

To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines. Parnell.