engrail

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  1. To variegate; spot, as with hail. A cauldron new engrail'd with twenty hewes. Chapman, Iliad, p. 325.
  2. To make serrate; give an indented outline to. [Archaic.] Over hills with peaky tops engrail'd. Tennyson, Palace of Art.
  3. To form an edging or border; run in a waving or indented line.

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  1. Also ingrail; from French engrêler, engrail, from en- + grêle, hail: see grail.
 

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