The Collaborative International Dictionary
Engrailed \En*grailed"\, a. (Her.) Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.
Engrail \En*grail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engrailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Engrailing.] [F. engr[^e]ler; pref. en- (L. in) + gr[^e]le hail. See Grail gravel.]
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To variegate or spot, as with hail.
A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues.
--Chapman. (Her.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.
Wiktionary
a. (context heraldry English) 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, (taxlink Ectropis crepuscularia species noshow=1).
Wikipedia
The Engrailed and Small Engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia) are moths of the family Geometridae. It is found from the British Isles through Central and Eastern Europe to the Russian Far East and Kazakhstan. The Western Mediterranean and Asia minor and the Caucasus represents the southern limit of the distribution (with the Balkan countries). In the North the distribution area ends at the Arctic circle. It also occurs in North America. There is a debate as to whether they make up one species, or whether E. crepuscularia actually refers only to the Small Engrailed, with the Engrailed proper being separable as E. bistortata.
The ground colour of the wings is buff or grey variably marked with darker fascia and a pale postdiscal crossline. The darker markings are not usually as strong as in the rather similar Willow Beauty. Melanic forms occur fairly frequently. The wingspan is 38–45 mm. One or two broods are produced each year. In the British Isles the adults can be seen at any time between March and August; this time range may vary in other parts of this moth's range. The species flies at night and is attracted to light.
The greyish caterpillar is truly polyphagous, feeding on a huge range of plants (see list below). The species overwinters as a pupa.
engrailed is a homeodomain transcription factor involved in many aspects of multicellular development. First known for its role in arthropod embryological development, working in consort with the Hox genes, engrailed has been found to be important in other areas of development. It has been identified in many bilaterians, including the vertebrates, echinoderms, molluscs, nematodes, brachiopods, and polychaetes. It acts as a "selector" gene, conferring a specific identity to defined areas of the body, and co-ordinating the expression of downstream genes.
Engrailed may refer to:
- engrailed (gene), a developmental gene in many animals
- Engrailed (moth), Ectropis crepuscularia, a moth
- Engrailed (heraldry), a term indicating curves pointing outwards in heraldry
Usage examples of "engrailed".
Azure, a fesso engrailed or, between three fleurs-de-lys of the same, two of them being near the top and the third in the point.
And when the good fathers had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard Kiernan and Co, limited, 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street, wholesale grocers, wine and brandy shippers, licensed fo the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit therein.
Elliott was appropriately dressed in white slacks and a light-blue polo shirt, the latter bearing the club crest-a quartered shield with palm tree rampant, engrailed crossed tennis racquets, golf clubs and a yacht, all on waves of the sea.