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Tousled; tangled; rough; shaggy. [Colloq.]

A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.

To entangle, as in a net; to catch. [R.] Shak.

he frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each…

re employed in solving the different cases of plane and spherical trigonometry, as sines, tangents, secants, and the like. These lines, or the lengths of them, are trigonometrical functions of the arcs and angles to which they belong. -- Trigonometrical survey. See under Survey.

a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc. Trough gutter (Arch.), a rectangular or V-shaped gutter, usually hung below the eaves of a house. -- Trough of the sea, the depression between two waves.

more streams of water, conducted so as to strike against the floats in the direction of a tangent to the cylinder.

A tang. See Tang a state. [R.]

To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle.

To unwind; to untangle.

To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.

To unwind; to disentangle; to loose. [Obs.] Spenser.

To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie. It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton.

To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.

To disentangle. [Obs.] Hooker.

The orang-utang

A decorative cabinet, of a form originating in Spain, the body being rectangular and supported on legs or an ornamental framework and the front opening downwards on hinges to serve as a writing desk.

An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.

A line, within a rotating fluid, whose tangent at every point is the instantaneous axis of rotation as that point of the fluid.

A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).