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adv. Dangling. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. angle, L. angulus angle, corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked, angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook, G. angel, and F. anchor. ] 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook. [ 1913 Webster ]

Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

To search the tenderest angles of the heart. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) (a) The figure made by. two lines which meet. (b) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though but an angle reached him of the stone. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological “houses.” [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. [ AS. angel. ] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fisher next his trembling angle bears. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than 90°. --
Adjacent or
Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. --
Alternate angles. See Alternate. --
Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron. --
Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. --
Angle brace,
Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. Knight. --
Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted. --
Angle leaf (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle. --
Angle meter, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata. --
Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. --
Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines. --
External angles, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or lengthened. --
Facial angle. See under Facial. --
Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined figure. --
Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line. --
Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. --
Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more than 90°. --
Optic angle. See under Optic. --
Rectilineal or
Right-lined angle, one formed by two right lines. --
Right angle, one formed by a right line falling on another perpendicularly, or an angle of 90° (measured by a quarter circle). --
Solid angle, the figure formed by the meeting of three or more plane angles at one point. --
Spherical angle, one made by the meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surface of a globe or sphere. --
Visual angle, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye. --
For Angles of commutation,
draught,
incidence,
reflection,
refraction,
position,
repose,
fraction, see Commutation, Draught, Incidence, Reflection, Refraction, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Angled p. pr. & vb. n. Angling ] 1. To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hearts of all that he did angle for. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure. [ Obs. ] “He angled the people's hearts.” Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right-angled, many-angled, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a bulldozer with an angled moldboard to push earth to one side. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Angle + -meter. ] An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Aëronautics) The angle between the tangent to the advancing edge (of an aërocurve) and the line of motion; -- contrasted with angle of trail, which is the angle between the tangent to the following edge and the line of motion. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Aëronautics) The angle between the chord of an aërocurve and the relative direction of the undisturbed air current. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. & i. 1. to park (a road vehicle) at an angle to the curb; -- contrasted with parallel-park. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ L. Angli. See Anglican. ] (Ethnol.) An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the Isle of Anglesea. ] (Min.) A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Angle + wise, OE. wise manner. ] In an angular manner; angularly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ From 1st Bang. ] To waste by little and little; to fritter away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hind. bangrī bracelet, bangle. ] An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn mostly by women, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet. It differs from other bracelets in being rigid and not articulated, in contrast to bracelets made of links. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Bangle ear, a loose hanging ear of a horse, like that of a spaniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To mangle; to tear asunder. [ R. ] Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bespangled p. pr. & vb. n. Bespangling ] To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. [ 1913 Webster ]

The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. covered with beads or jewels or sequins.
Syn. -- beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Brangled p. pr. & vb. n. Brangling ] To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. E. brangled confused, entangled, Scot. brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused with brawl. √95.> ] A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrangle; brangle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A quarrelsome person. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dangled p. pr. & vb. n. Dangling ] [ Akin to Dan. dangle, dial. Sw. dangla, Dan. dingle, Sw. dingla, Icel. dingla; perh. from E. ding. ] To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

He'd rather on a gibbet dangle
Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

From her lifted hand
Dangled a length of ribbon. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

To dangle about or
To dangle after, to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle after them,
are well inclined to pull down the present establishment. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler. “ Danglers at toilets.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dangling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + em = en (L. in) + brangle. ] To free from wrangling or litigation. [ Obs. ] Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disentangled p. pr. & vb. n. Disentangling ] 1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate. [ 1913 Webster ]

To disentangle truth from error. Stewart. [ 1913 Webster ]

To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Syn. -- To loose; extricate; disembarrass; disembroil; clear; evolve; disengage; separate; detach. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. freed from an entanglement; -- of people or agents.
Syn. -- extricated, freed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. straightened out.
Syn. -- loosened, unsnarled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- (L. in) + brangle. ] To confuse; to entangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Entangled p. pr. & vb. n. Entangling ] 1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. “Entangling alliances.” Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. in a confused mass. Contrasted with untangled. [ Narrower terms: afoul(postnominal), foul, fouled; knotted, snarled, snarly; matted; rootbound; intertwined ]
Syn. -- tangled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. deeply involved especially in something problematic; as, entangled in the conflict.
Syn. -- embroiled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. constrained by or as if by a convoluted rope or net; ensnared. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) An extensive low obstacle formed of stakes, stumps, or the like, connected by wires, ropes, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. (Naut.) An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbor entrance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One that entangles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Equi- + angle. ] Equiangular. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To strangle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Fang, v. t.; hence, prop., a taking up a new thing. ] Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fashion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To control and new fangle the Scripture. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [ Obs., except with the prefix new. ] See Newfangled. “Our fangled world.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being fangled. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He them in new fangleness did pass. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of fangs or tusks. “A fangless lion.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From fangle. ] A trifle. [ Low ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Aëronautics) The angle, esp. the least angle, at which a gliding machine or aëroplane will glide to earth by virtue of gravity without applied power. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly. [ R. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

Physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]