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To free from entailment.

To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.] As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser.

To divest of coat of mail. Spenser.

A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also goldseed.

The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."

A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a s…

A draggle-tail; a slattern. Halliwell.

A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.

See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon.

To trail; to draggle. [Obs.] South.

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements. [Archaic] To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof. Tennyson.

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 put into jail; to imprison. [R.] Donne.

That which is entailed. Hence: (Law)

The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.