† enˈtrailed, ppl. a. Obs.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Entwined, interwoven.
| 1599 Middleton Micro-cynicon Wks. V. 492 Her high-pric'd necklace of entrailed pearls. |
2. Her. entrailed cross: one drawn in outline, with looped flourishes at the corners (see figures in Leigh loc. cit. and Elvin Dict. Her.). Sir J. Ferne refers disapprovingly to a use of the word as = umbrated.
| 1562 Leigh Armorie (1597) 36 He beareth argent a crosse entrailed..it is alwaies sable, and is no bigger then touched with a pensell, or tricked with a pen. 1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 175 You haue been taught to call this crosse entrailled. |