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To variegate or spot, as with hail. A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues. Chapman.

Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.

The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc. Brande & C.

To interweave; to intertwine. [Obs.] Spenser.

The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth. That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America. Locke.

ity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.

Weakly; infirmly.

Frailty.

The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness. Locke.

in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. [Obs.] T. Warton. Such as antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc. Strype.

A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers. Knight.

Certain railroads whose traffic largely consists in carrying the produce of farmers or grangers; -- specifically applied to the Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; and Chicago & Northwestern, railroads. [U. S.].

To rail in; to inclose or surround, as with rails. Hooker.

Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

One who serves a mitrailleuse.

A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.

See Apparel. [Obs.] "In the parail of a pilgrim." Piers Plowman.

Each spoke has attached to it a small roller which in its turn runs under a short pivoted rail controlled by a powerful set of springs. This arrangement permits the feet to accomodate themselves to obstacles even such as steps or stairs. The pedrail was invented by one B. J. Diplock of London, Eng.

Penetralia. [Obs.] Harvey.

Poor people; the poor. [Obs.] Chaucer.