Engrailed

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Heraldry Indented along the edge with small curves.
  • adj. Having an edge or a margin formed by a series of raised dots: engrailed silver coins.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. having an edge or border indented with semicircles with points outwards. Usually the saltire and the dexter edge of the border of the shield both have cuts along their entire length the shape of crescent moons.
  • n. A European moth, Ectropis crepuscularia.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In heraldry, cut into concave semicircular indents: said of a line and also of the bearing, such as a fesse, bordure, or the like, whose edge is broken in this way: as, a bordure engrailed. Also engreslé.
    • Word Usage
    "The posterior half of the wing is the domain of expression of a molecule called engrailed, which is part of the machinery that makes the back half a back half."
    Cross Reference
    invected   
    Verb Stem
    engrail   
     
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