1. (Falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Naut.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

That I may know how frail I am. Ps. xxxix. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

An old bent man, worn and frail. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tender. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Deep indignation and compassion frail. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man is frail, and prone to evil. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

God knows our frailty, [ and ] pities our weakness. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.

Syn. -- Frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such as antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞The Holy Grail, according to some legends of the Middle Ages, was the cup used by our Savior in dispensing the wine at the last supper; and according to others, the platter on which the paschal lamb was served at the last Passover observed by our Lord. This cup, according to the legend, if appoached by any but a perfectly pure and holy person, would be borne away and vanish from the sight. The quest of the Holy Grail was to be undertaken only by a knight who was perfectly chaste in thought, word, and act. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lying down upon the sandy grail. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mitralleuse. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Streams of tears from her fair eyes forth railing. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Railroad) A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) (a) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks. (b) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A railroad as a means of transportation; as, to go by rail; a place not accesible by rail. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

6. a railing. [ PJC ]

Rail fence. See under Fence. --
Rail guard. (a) A device attached to the front of a locomotive on each side for clearing the rail of obstructions. (b) A guard rail. See under Guard. --
Rail joint (Railroad), a splice connecting the adjacent ends of rails, in distinction from a chair, which is merely a seat. The two devices are sometimes united. Among several hundred varieties, the fish joint is standard. See Fish joint, under Fish. --
Rail train (Iron & Steel Manuf.), a train of rolls in a rolling mill, for making rails for railroads from blooms or billets. [ 1913 Webster ]

It ought to be fenced in and railed. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To range in a line. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common European water rail (Rallus aquaticus) is called also bilcock, skitty coot, and brook runner. The best known American species are the clapper rail, or salt-marsh hen (Rallus longirostris, var. crepitans); the king, or red-breasted, rail (Rallus elegans) (called also fresh-water marshhen); the lesser clapper, or Virginia, rail (Rallus Virginianus); and the Carolina, or sora, rail (Porzana Carolina). See Sora. [ 1913 Webster ]

Land rail (Zool.), the corncrake. [ 1913 Webster ]

And rail at arts he did not understand. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lesbia forever on me rails. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move or influence by railing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Rail the seal from off my bond. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]