v. t.
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.
adj.
n. The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
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.
n.
n. One that entangles. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. See Entangle. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To entangle; to intertwine. “Moss and intertangled vines.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Penta- + angle. ] A pentagon. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F., fr. L. rectus right + angulus angle. See Right, and Angle. ] (Geom.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ As the area of a rectangle is expressed by the product of its two dimensions, the term rectangle is sometimes used for product; as, the rectangle of a and b, that is, ab. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Rectangular. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Rectangular. Hutton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Septi- + angle. ] (Geom.) A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
When my simple weakness strays,
Tangled in forbidden ways. Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]
Blue tangle. (Bot.)S
Tangle picker (Zool.),
n. (Zool.) The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + entangle. ] To disentangle. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + tangle. ] To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve;
Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]