Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed exteriorly of small convex or outward curves, or slightly projecting rounded lobes: used in heraldry of a line or the edge of a bearing: the opposite of
engrailed , in which the curves are concave or turned inward. Formerlycanellé .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of
engrailed .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective heraldry having a
border consistng ofsemicircles with theconvex part outwards;scalloped - verb
inveighed
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Some five million people in South Africa are invected with either HIV or full-blown AIDS, with 360,000 deaths due to the disease last year, according to UN statistics.
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Sable, on a fesse invected or, between three cats a mountain passant guardant argent, a fasces in bend, surmounting a sword in bend sinister proper, between two crescents gules, in the centre chief point a rose of the third.
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The border of each compartment is formed by a double invected pattern of gold and enamel.
hernesheir commented on the word invected
In heraldry, the exact reverse of engrailed.
December 7, 2012