entract, entracte (antract)

[Fr.] 1. Drama.: The interval between the acts of a drama. 2. Music: Music played between the acts or divisions of an opera, drama, or other stage performance. *en-trail, *en-trayl, v. t. [Pref. en, and O. Fr. treiller=to lattice.] To interweave, to variegate. "Entrailed with flowrets and with rare device." Thompson: Epithalamium. ěn-trailş, s . pl . , *en-trail, *en-traile, *in-trals, s. [Fr. entrail les , from Low Lat. intralia , intranea , from Lat. interanea , neut. pl. of inter ane us -inward, from inter =within.] 1. Lit .: The inward or internal parts of animals; the intestines; the guts. "The thirsty point in Sulmo's entrails lay." Byron: Nisus and Euryalus. 2. Fig .: The internal parts. "Then toiled with mattock to explore The entrails of the cavern floor." To draw on. Scott: Rokeby, vi. 6. ěn-trāin', v . t . [Pref. en , and Eng. train (q. v.).] en-trăm-mel, v . t . [Pref. en , and Eng. trammel B. As substantive: Comp. Anat .: An oblong, thin, scale-like bone attached to the inner border of the co-adapted halves of the palative and true pterygoid in fishes, and increasing the bony roof of the mouth in the direction toward the median line. It is edentulous in the cod and most other fishes. (Owen: Comp. Anat.; Fishes (1846), pp. 108, 109.)