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Definition of Engrailing
1. engrail [v] - See also: engrail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engrailing
Literary usage of Engrailing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"About the middle of the i4th century begins a tendency, resisted in practice by
many conservative families, to draw the engrailing lines in the fashion to ..."
2. A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries by John Woodward, George Burnett (1892)
"Differencing by the addition of a bordure will be treated separately, p. 437.)
VII.—CHANGING THE BOUNDARY LINE OK AN ORDINARY, by engrailing, ..."
3. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"engrailing Swt Cist, t 47. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sessile,
wrinkled, 3-nerved, villous on both surfaces. Peduncles cymose, and are, ..."
4. A Grammar of English Heraldry by William Henry St. John Hope (1913)
"engrailing and indenting were therefore the same thing, though not always ...
It is interesting to note that engrailing is not yet extended to a cheveron. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"About the middle of the ulh century begins a tendency, resisted in practice by
many conservative families, to draw the engrailing lines in the fashion to ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1852)
"The engrailing also very different. 4. A totally different, and older portrait
than any of the preceding. “ MM.” and eng'ailing the same as No. ..."
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