Crossword clues for entrails
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entrails \En"trails\, n. pl. [F. entrailles, LL. intralia, intranea, fr. interaneum, pl. interanea, intestine, interaneus inward, interior, fr. inter between, among, within. See Internal.]
The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
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The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.
That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America.
--Locke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"internal parts of animal bodies," c.1300, from Old French entrailles (12c.), from Late Latin intralia "inward parts, intestines" (8c.), from altered form of Latin interanea, noun use of neuter plural of interaneus "internal, that which is within," from inter "between, among" (see inter-). Latin interanea yielded Late Latin intrania, hence Italian entrango, Spanish entrañas, Old French entraigne; the alternative form that led to the Modern English word evidently is from influence of the Latin neuter plural (collective) adjective suffix -alia (French -aille).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) (plural of entrail English) 2 (context plural only uncountable English) The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.
WordNet
Usage examples of "entrails".
My entrails dangling just inches above the water, so the Axumite marines could bet on the sharks competing for them.
Among the dangling entrails, however, several bladderlike appendages pulsed, pushing enough air through her voice box for a short answer or two.
I dug out of the carcasses, the print of a bootheel near that pile of entrails, and only one shell casing, which tells me the rest were picked up.
The clever deevil had his entrails in his breest and his hert in his belly, and regairdet neither God nor his ain mither.
But the larva of the Calosoma sycophanta, which feeds on the Processional caterpillar of the oak-tree, pays no heed to it, neither does the Dermestes, which feeds on the entrails of the Processional caterpillar of the pine-tree.
As Sacheverell was explaining the tiny Canopic jar of preserved cat entrails beside it, a six-toed Siamese wandered up and sniffed the mummy thoughtfully.
She scattered a mixture of herblike seaweed, powdered pearl, and dried fish entrails over the surface of her sleeping tub, then pronounced the words to the immersion spell.
When they abandoned them, those mysterious passageways became caves for bandits, until gradually La Justicia and other secret sects took over the buried entrails of the city.
The roaring energy blew orts into a scattering of sparking bones and whipping entrails.
Then, as Zal raised the poleax, Conan darted in under the blow, and the next instant Zal was down, writhing in his own blood and entrails.
Hadrian prohibited these Mysteries, on account of the cruel scenes represented in their ceremonial: for human victims were immolated therein, and the events of futurity looked for in their palpitating entrails.
Corpses sprawled, bloated, discolored, amidst entrails and clotted blood, broken weapons, ruins of crude testudines under which the barbarians had tried to storm the gates.
The rusty steamer lay at the quayside and disgorged from its entrails bristling Anatolians with pock-marked faces, cannons and horses.
Her husband killed himself at Vienna in a paroxysm caused by internal pain--he had cut open his stomach with a razor, and died tearing at his entrails.
The batrachians were as slow to die as their primeval ancestors, and Kane saw at least one soldier spitted on the blade of a Rillyti as it tripped over its own dangling entrails.