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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Intraill, -trail, n. Pl. -traillis, -tralis, -trel(l)is, -terellis, -trels. [ME. intrailles pl. (1467), intrayle (1557), varr. of earlier entrail, entrelle, Entrailȝe, Entralis.] An entrail, pl. entrails. —a. a1500 Henr. Fab. 91.
I lufe fer better thing of les auaill, As draf, or corne, to fill my tume intraill [B. intrall] 1548 Stirling B. Rec. I. 52.
To furnis hym muttoun, the hale bouke and intralis 1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II. 328.
[He] punsed him uith his hands and feete, birsed his bowells and intraillsb. 1533 Boece xv. i. 575.
This venom … huly at lenth guawand and nyppand the intrellis 1540 Acts II. 374/1.
The … temyng of interellis of beistis generand corruptioune 1596 Dalr. I. 244/14.
Followit … a rottinnes in the intrelis Ib. II. 46/21.
His hart [was] rugit out of his bouk, and with the intrels castne in the fyre