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adv. Dangling. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- not + ganglionic. ] (Physiol.) Without ganglia. [ 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 ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Angles. -- n. One of the Angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Anglian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Angli the Angles, a Germanic tribe in Lower Germany. Cf. English. ] 1. English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A member of the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whether Catholics, Anglicans, or Calvinists. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Attachment to England or English institutions. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖adv. [ NL. ] In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ NL. Anglicus English + -fly. ] To anglicize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. anglicisme. ] 1. An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being English. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of anglicizing, or making English in character. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Anglicized p. pr. & vb. n. Anglicizing. ] To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Anglified p. pr. & vb. n. Anglifying. ] [ L. Angli + -fly. ] To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

ety>[ NL. Anglus English. See Anglican. ] A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anglo-Danish, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Danes, or to the Danes who settled in England. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the English and Americans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an American who was born in England or whose ancestors were English. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a., Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The belief of those in the Church of England who accept many doctrines and practices which they maintain were those of the primitive, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant; a doctrine and practice within the Church of England emphasizing the Catholic tradition.
Syn. -- High Anglicanism [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 the French (Norman) language used in medieval England.
Syn. -- Anglo-Norman [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. relating to British India or the English in India, or to the English and East Indian peoples or languages. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a person of English citizenship born or living in India. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. One of the Anglo-Indian race born or resident in the East Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of English-speaking jews and their culture Anglo-Jewish papers [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Anglo'cf + mania. ] A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One affected with Anglomania. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the English and Normans, or to the Normans who settled in England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One of the English Normans, or the Normans who conquered England. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the French (Norman) language used in medieval England.
Syn. -- Anglo-French [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 an admirer of England and things English.
Syn. -- anglophil [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. exaggerated admiration for England and English customs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Anglophilia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a person who hates England and everything English. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Anglo- + Gr. &unr_; fear. ] Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. -- An"glo*phobe n. [1913 Webster]