Aubrey gives in trick, as on the monument, 'sable, a fesse engrailed argent, between 3 dexter hands couped bendways or.
Besides the plain cross familiar to most of us in the arms of St. George, and the similar form with engrailed edges, there is a variety known as the ragged cross, derived from two crossed pieces of a tree with lopped branches.
In some of the later ornate forms, like those described above, the incurved or engrailed edge is accompanied by a field worked with a series of ridges and furrows (figs.
His beard was dark and heavy, yet diffused, Low as the lion ramping on his breast Engrailed upon the mail.
AC] Aubrey gives in trick the coat: 'azure, a swan within a bordure engrailed argent.
He was the first of his line that bore for his arms, Or, a chevron gules within a bordure engrailed sable.
Lozenge: Sable, on a cross engrailedbetween four eagles displayed argent, five lions passant guardant of the field (Paget).
The arms of Bridger are: "Argent, a chevron engrailed sable, between three crabs gules.
The arms of Knox, Earl of Ranfurly, are: Gules, a falcon volant or, within an orle wavy on the outer and engrailed on the inner edge argent.
In early Scottish seals the bordures are to so large an extent engrailed as to make it appear that the later and present rule, which gives the plain bordure to immediate cadets, was not fully recognised or adopted.
The Herring occurs in the arms of Maconochie, the Roach in the arms of Roche ["Gules, three roaches naiant within a bordure engrailed argent.
The arms of the Holts are described as "Argent on a band engrailed sable, three fleur-de-lys of the first.
HOLT, of Stubley: Argent on a bend engrailedsable three fleurs-de-lis of the field.
Sometimes the top is straight, while the sides and base areengrailed out, and in instances, perhaps under German influence, the bases are rounded.
Illustration] Many shields now occur with hollowed-out sides, and engrailed at the top and base, and are classed in our plate under the various forms of Gothic (Nos.
Montagu, earl of Salisbury, bore a fesse engrailed or indented of three fusils only, very few shields imitating this.
Hugh Giffard (14th century) bore "Gules with anengrailed fret of ermine.
Thus the engrailed cross of the Mohuns takes either of the two forms which we illustrate.
The word invecked or invected is sometimes applied by old-fashioned heraldic pedants to engrailed lines; later pedants have given it to a line found in modern grants of arms, an engrailed line reversed.
But it will be understood that the Fusil, other than as part of an engrailed or indented bend, pale or fesse, is not known to true armory.
On the seal (1310) of Maude, wife of John Boutetort of Halstead, the engrailedsaltire of the Boutetorts takes the sinister place.
A cross, engrailed or indented, the words being used indifferently, is a cross so deeply notched at the edges that it seems made up of so many lozenge-shaped wedges or fusils.
Bends follow the same fashion, early bends engrailed or indented being some four or more fusils joined bendwise by their blunt sides, bends of less than four fusils being very rare.
Thus also the engrailed or indented saltires, pales or cheverons, the exact number of the fusils which go to the making of these being unconsidered.
The fesse indented or engrailed is made up of fusils as is the engrailed bend.
Bayforde of Fordingbridge sealed (in 1388) with arms of "An eagle bendwise, with a border engrailed and a baston.
Note that bars indented or engrailed are, for a reason which will be evident, never subject to this counting of fusils.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "engrailed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
