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Entrails

En′trails

,
Noun.
pl.
[F.
entrailles
, LL.
intralia
,
intranea
, fr.
interaneum
, pl.
interanea
, intestine,
interaneus
inward, interior, fr.
inter
between, among, within. See
Internal
.]
1.
The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
2.
The internal parts;
as, the
entrails
of the earth
.
That treasure . . . hid the dark
entrails
of America.
Locke.

Definition 2024


entrails

entrails

English

Noun

entrails

  1. (archaic) plural of entrail

entrails pl (plural only)

  1. The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.
    • 1987, Christopher Hibbert, The English: A Social History, 1066-1945, ISBN 9780393023718, page 244:
      Elizabethan audiences relished shocks and surprises as much as they did trumpets, thunder and savage realism in bloody scenes of torture and death which were made all the more horrible by the use of animals’ entrails.

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