Definition of "engrailed" [en•grailed]

• Heraldry Indented along the edge with small curves. (adjective)
• Having an edge or a margin formed by a series of raised dots: engrailed silver coins. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The posterior half of the wing is the domain of expression of a molecule called engrailed, which is part of the machinery that makes the back half a back half."
• "In half an hour we were at the last crest, in a place where the Turks had dug trenches and stoned up an elaborate outpost of engrailed sangars which on this black new-moon night of our raid were empty."
• "= -- The arms are gules, within a border argent, a cross engrailed or, and are so given by Willis in his _Seals of"