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Entanglement. [Obs.]

the length of a curve, measured from a given point of it, to a movable point, has to the angle which the tangent to the curve at the movable point makes with a fixed line. -- Intrinsic value. See the Note under Value, n.

To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement. All things are mixed, and causes blended, by mutual involutions. Glanvill.

To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

A figure or polygon whose angles are equal.

Pertaining to, or noting, equal angles. Isogonic lines (Magnetism), lines traced on the surface of the globe, or upon a chart, connecting places at which the deviation of the magnetic needle from the meridian or true north is the same.

, that system of crystallization in which the three axes are of equal length and at right angles to each other; monometric; regular; cubic. Cf. Crystallization. Isometric lines (Thermodynamics), lines representing in a diagram the relations of pressure and temperature in a gas, when the volume remains constant. -- Iso…

Having two legs or sides that are equal; -- said of a triangle.

o dress, adorn, deck, or supply with jewels, as a dress, a sword hilt, or a watch; to bespangle, as with jewels. The long gray tufts . . . are jeweled thick with dew. M. Arnold.

Making a right angle; perpendicular, as two lines or two sides of a triangle, which include a right angle.

A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass.

-- so called because consisting of two pieces jointed to each other end to end, making an angle like the knee when bent.

A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of File.

A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

Interwoven; matted; entangled. Make . . . thy knotted and combined locks to part. Shak.

e last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.

An extension at right angles to the length of a main building, giving to the ground plan a form resembling the letter L; sometimes less properly applied to a narrower, or lower, extension in the direction of the length of the main building; a wing. [Written also ell.]

To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.