entrail

English

Etymology 1

en- +‎ trail

Verb

entrail (third-person singular simple present entrails, present participle entrailing, simple past and past participle entrailed)

1. (archaic) To interweave or bind.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene‎^[1], Book III Canto VI:

     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, William Cecil, letter to his son, reprinted in Annals of the reformation and establishment of religion^[2], 1824, by 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.

   • 1885, John Barlas, The Bloody Heart‎^[3]:

     Himself hid by entrailing foliage, / Betwixt whose leafy meshes he could see / That false pair's dalliance and badinage.

2. (heraldry) To outline in black.

   A cross entrailed.

   • 1847, Henry Gough, John Henry Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table ..., Oxford, Page 124,

     "Entrailed: outlined, always with black lines. See Adumbration, and Cross entrailed."

   • 1775, Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, An Introduction to Heraldry: Containing the Origin and Use of Arms; Rules ..., H. Washbourne, Page 122,

     "Entrailed, a Cross, P.7, n.20, Lee says, the colour need not be named, for it is always sable."

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English entraille, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French entraille (compare modern French entrailles), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  intrālia, modification of intrānea, contraction of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin interāneum (“gut, intestine”), substantive of interāneus (“internal, inward”)

Noun

entrail (plural entrails)

1. (usually used in the plural) singular of entrails; an internal organ of an animal.
   • 1957, Bill Bryson, “They Still Ride 'Em Rough”, in Baseball Digest, volume 16, number 8, page 57:

     She might even bust an entrail if she went on a little farther in the official code

   • 1922-1976, Liam O'Flaherty, “The Post Office”, in Liam O'Flaherty: the collected stories, page 55:

     Those blackguards have no more respect for an entrail, or a sinew, or a vital organ, than if they were gutting dog-fish.

   • 2006, Robert Ludlum, The Ambler Warning, page 427:

     Did an entrail-reading priest find something nasty in the offal?

2. (archaic) Entanglement; fold.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, page 1.1.18:

     "About her cursed head, whose folds displaid / Were stretcht now forth at length without entraile."

Synonyms

• innard, gut, tharm, intestine

Translations

an internal organ of an animal

• Czech: vnitřnosti
• German:

  Alemannic German: Gehüdel n

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• Hungarian: zsiger (hu)
• Russian: вну́тренности (ru) f pl (vnútrennosti)
• Telugu: పేగు (te) (pēgu)

Anagrams

• Latiner, art line, larnite, latrine, line art, ratline, reliant, retinal, trainel, trenail