Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The rarely used singular of entrails.
- To interweave; diversify; entwine or twist together.
Wiktionary
- v. archaic To interweave or bind.
- v. heraldry To outline in black.
- n. usually in the plural An internal organ of an animal.
- n. obsolete Entanglement; fold.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To interweave; to intertwine.
- n. obsolete Entanglement; fold.
Etymologies
- From Middle English entraille, from Old French entraille (cf. modern French entrailles), from Late Latin intrālia, modification of intrānea, contraction of Latin interāneum ("gut, intestine"), substantive of interāneus ("internal, inward") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Save your "entrail" and other snide insults for someone else.”
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“You're starting to delve into what I call rejection-letter-entrail-reading here.”
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“But best of all is Fox's art and Stewart's coloring, which are blood-soaked, entrail-laden, and painted in an eerie palette.”
“There is just enough to the entrail-reading to render them plausbile to a public whose will to believe may soon chomp clear through thebit.”
“The occasional remaining eyeball, paw or lump of putrid entrail remained, missed by the trapper who had liberated the animal from its leg-hold trap and then gutted and skinned it in field; sometimes still partially alive, Wade told me.”
“The fighting is brutal, just short of entrail-clutching, with characters dying on screen, and a dagger fight at the end in which nobody tells the hero, "Don't kill him, that'll make you as bad as him.”
“There is an obvious spirit of daring to the entrail enterprise.”
“The robot goes on to detail how this all works in an act of exposition that wouldn't be out-of-place in an SF story if it were only about, say, the techniques and transmission of interstellar travel through the cultures of the future rather than the techniques and transmission of entrail reading through the cultures of history and up into the future.”
“There is even one outright elves and entrail reading for real story, as far as the completely impossible futures go.”
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“Fortune-tellers, entrail readers, and omen consultants have been advisors to generals and kings.”
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