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Webster 1913 Edition
Entrails
En′trails
,Noun.
pl.
[F.
entrailles
, LL. intralia
, intranea
, fr. interaneum
, pl. interanea
, intestine, interaneus
inward, interior, fr. inter
between, among, within. See Internal
.] 1.
The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
2.
The internal parts;
as, the
. entrails
of the earthThat treasure . . . hid the dark
entrails
of America. Locke.
Definition 2024
entrails
entrails
English
Noun
entrails
- (archaic) plural of entrail
entrails pl (plural only)
- The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.
- 1987, Christopher Hibbert, The English: A Social History, 1066-1945, ISBN 9780393023718, page 244:
- Elizabethan audiences relished shocks and surprises as much as they did trumpets, thunder and savage realism in bloody scenes of torture and death which were made all the more horrible by the use of animals’ entrails.
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Synonyms
Translations
internal organs
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