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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Engrailed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Engrailing

[F.

engrêler

; pref.

en-

(L.

) +

grêle

hail. See

gravel.]

To variegate or spot, as with hail.

A caldron new

engrailed

with twenty hues.

Chapman.

(Her.)

To indent with small curves. See

Verb.

To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

Parnell.

Verb.

In heraldry, to variegate; to spot as with hail; to indent or make ragged at the edges, as if broken with hail; to indent in curve lines.