English Dictionary

engrail

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪŋˈɡɹeɪl/

動詞

他動詞 古語

(transitive) To variegate or spot, as with hail. / (transitive, heraldry, archaic) To indent with small curves.

日本語の意味

雹などの物によって斑点状にする、または斑点を生じさせる。 / （紋章学的、古語的）小さな曲線を用いて内側にくぼみを作る。

The hail seemed to engrail the newly planted crops, leaving pale spots across the leaves.

雹が植えたばかりの作物をまだらにし、葉に薄い斑点を残した。

意味（1）

(transitive) To variegate or spot, as with hail.

a caldron new engrailed with twenty hues

意味（2）

(transitive, heraldry, archaic) To indent with small curves.

He crossed through the high grass and went up the slope, climbing with handholds in the new turf until he gained the crest and turned to look down on the river and the city beyond, casting a gray glance along that varied world, the pieced plowland, the houses, the odd grady of the small metropolis against the green and blooming hills and the flat bow of the river like a serpentine trench poured with dull slag save where the wind engrailed its face and it shimmered lightly in the sun.

engrails （ present singular third-person ）

engrailing （ participle present ）

engrailed （ participle past ）

engrailed （ past ）