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To entangle; to intertwine. "Moss and intertangled vines." Longfellow.

To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." Chaucer.

An idle talker; a babbler; a prater. Chaucer.

A female prater or babbler.

Jangling. [Obs.] Chaucer.

an aborigines with a sharp- pointed end, about nine inches in length, projecting at right angles from the main part.

with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.

To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. [Obs.] Udall.

Eager for novelties; desirous of changing. [Obs.] So newfangel be they of their meat. Chaucer.

Newmade; formed with the affectation of novelty. "A newfangled nomenclature." Sir W. Hamilton.

Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.

Newfangledness. [Obs.] Chaucer. Proud newfangleness in their apparel. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.

Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle.

Without a pang; painless. Byron.

A pentagon. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The angle expressing phase relation.

A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles.

Having five angles; quinquangular.