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One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler. " Danglers at toilets." Burke.

In a dangling manner.

To free from wrangling or litigation. [Obs.] Berkeley.

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.

The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.

To confuse; to entangle. I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley.

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.

State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

One that entangles.

Equiangular. [Obs.] Boyle.

To strangle. [Obs.]

To fashion. [Obs.] To control and new fangle the Scripture. Milton.

made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. "Our fangled world." Shak.

Quality of being fangled. [Obs.] He them in new fangleness did pass. Spenser.

Destitute of fangs or tusks. "A fangless lion." Shak.

A trifle. [Low] Hudibras.

The angle, esp. the least angle, at which a gliding machine or aëroplane will glide to earth by virtue of gravity without applied power.

To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly. [R.] Hudibras. Physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic. Coleridge.

See Entangle.

To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily. [R.] Daniel.