ppl. a. [f. ENGRAIL v.]

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  1.  (See ENGRAIL v. 1.) a. Her. Of an ordinary: Having a series of curvilinear indentations in the edge. b. gen. Of the edge of any object, of a line, a circle, etc.: Ornamented with a series of curvilinear indentations. c. Of a coin: Having a margin formed by an engrailed circle, or with a ring of dots. d. Entom. Engrailed moth, Tephrosia biundularia; Small engrailed moth, T. crepuscularis (Newman, Brit. Moths, 66).

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a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 4183. He had sothely for-sakene þe sawturoure engrelede.

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1486.  Bk. St. Albans, Her., E ij b. Sych a bordure is calde a bordure ingraylit for the colowre of hym is put gre by gre into the felde of tharmys.

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1830.  E. Hawkins, Anglo-Fr. Coin., 128. Legend … within two concentric engrailed circles.

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1848.  Rickman, Goth. Archit., xx. The nail-head, and engrailed ornaments.

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1856.  Smyth, Rom. Fam. Coins, 97. A well struck engrailed coin of excellent workmanship.

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1871.  W. H. Turner, Publ. Harl. Soc., V. 86. A cross engrailed between four water bougets.

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  † 2.  (See ENGRAIL v. 3.) Incised, carved in intaglio. Obs.

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1784.  J. Barry, Lect. Art, i. (1848), 69. The intaglio or engrailed figures on our Gothic tombs.

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