or INGRAILED, in Heraldry, a term derived from the French greste, huit; and signifying a thing the huit has fallen upon and broken off the edges, leaving them ragged, or with half rounds, or semicircles, struck out of their edges.
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1 Jamieson's Dissertation on the Origin of the Scottish Language (p. 31), prefixed to his Dictionary. 2 Verulamian remains in nearly the same manner. (Restitution of decayed Intelligence, p. 129. Antwerp, 1605, 4to.) See likewise the preface to Dr Wallis's Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae, p. xxiii.; and Mr Boucher's Introduction to his Glossary of Obsolete and Provincial Words, p. liii. 3 Pinkerton's Enquiry into the History of Scotland, vol. i. p. 163. Lond. 1789, 2 vols. 8vo.—Mr Roberts inclines to the same opinion: "The Picts, or more properly Phicti, probably a colony of Scandinavians, originally from Scythia, as they are said to have come over the northern sea. Trist 7." (Sketch of the Early History of the Cymry, or Ancient Britons, p. 125. Lond. 1803, 8vo.) Professor Magnusen, who has more recently investigated the origin of the Picts, bestows sufficient commendation on Mr Pinkerton's learning and research; and to a certain extent is disposed to adopt his leading opinion; but at the same time he declares himself unable to approve of all the arguments by which it is supported, especially of those which rest upon erroneous interpretations of Scandinavian words and antiquities; nor does he fail to express his disapprobation of this writer's unreasonable invectives against the Celts. (Om Picternes og deres Navns Oprindelse, S. 56. Kjöbenhavn, 1817, 8vo.) 4 Müller's Sagarbibliothek, Band i. S. 4. Kjöbenhavn, 1817-20, 3 Band. 8vo. 5 Dr Sharpe has well stated that "war, invasion, conquest, treaties of commerce with different nations, commerce, colonies, rise of arts, laws, refinements, revolutions, time or age, and the changes of a people, are all causes of alteration in language." (Two Dissertations upon the Origin of Languages, and upon the original Powers of Letters, p. 35. edit. Lond. 1761, 8vo.) 6 Barbour's Bruce, p. 82. Wintoun's Croxkill, vol. i. p. 4. Henry's Wallace, p. 231. 7 "Duobus enim utuntur linguis, Scotica videlicet, et Tentionica, quibus linguae gens scoticum possedit et planas regiones lingua vero gens Scotiae montanam inhabitat, et insulas ulteriores." (Fondum Scotiachronicum, vol. i. p. 44. edit. Goddall.) 8 Pinkerton's Essay on the Origin of Scottish Poetry (p. lxxi.), prefixed to Ancient Scottish Poems. Lond. 1780; 2 vols. 8vo. Engraving is the art of cutting metals and precious stones, and representing thereon figures, letters, or whatever device or design the artist chooses.