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The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles of the heart. Milton.

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.

The angle between the chord of an aërocurve and the relative direction of the undisturbed air current.

Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right- angled, many-angled, etc. The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall.

An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata.

One who angles.

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.

A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.

In an angular manner; angularly.

A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm.

Of or pertaining to the Angles. -- n.

Anglian.

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.

Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.

In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn.

To anglicize. [R.]

An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English. Dryden.

The state or quality of being English.

The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.

To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.