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Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.

To strangle with a bowstring.

Put to death with a bowstring; strangled.

A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle. This petty brabble will undo us all. Shak.

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. [R] Shak.

A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl. His sports were hindered by the brawls. Shak .

One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.

eathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words. Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge. Bacon.

One who litigates or wrangles. [Obs.]

winging or jerking motion. he'd rather on a gibbet dangle Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle. Hudibras. From her lifted hand Dangled a length of ribbon. Tennyson. To dangle about or after, to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset. The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle after them, are…

ined, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. Therefore disputed [reasoned, Rev. Ver .] he in synagogue with the Jews. Acts xvii. 17.

To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.

One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.

In a ghastly manner; hideously. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. Shak.

A caviler; a wrangler. [Obs.] Baret.

To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle. Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree. Shak. Prussian Trenck . . . jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner. Carlyle.

One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.

A quadrangle; hence, a prison. [Cant or Slang]