entrail
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entrail¹
verb entrails · entrailing · entrailed
- To interweave or bind. 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 thr
- To outline in black. A cross entrailed.
entrail²
- /ˈɛn.tɹeɪl/
- /ˈɛn.tɹəl/
Where it comes from
From Middle English entraille, from Old French entraille (compare modern French entrailles), from Late Latin intrālia, modification of Latin intrānea, contraction of interāneum (“gut, intestine”), substantive of interāneus (“internal, inward”).
noun entrails
- singular of entrails; an internal organ of an animal. She might even bust an entrail if she went on a little farther in the official code
- Entanglement; fold. "About her cursed head, whose folds displaid / Were stretcht now forth at length without entraile."
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Talk about this word "entrail." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/entrail. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. entrail. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/entrail "entrail." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/entrail.Cite this
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title = {entrail},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/entrail},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
