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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.

speech fell flat. -- To fall foul of. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. -- To fall from, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. -- To fall from grace (M. E. Ch.), to…

A bend or loop of a rope. In a fang, fast entangled. -- To lose the fang, said of a pump when the water has gone out; hence: To fang a pump, to supply it with the water necessary to make it operate. [Scot.]

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

flies. -- Fly paper, poisoned or sticky paper for killing flies that feed upon or are entangled by it. -- Fly powder, an arsenical powder used to poison flies. -- Fly press, a screw press for punching, embossing, etc., operated by hand and having a heavy fly. -- Fly rail, a bracket which turns out to support the hi…

Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.

Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. Atoms . . . which at length hitched together. South.

The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.

Spangled with ice. Mounting up in icy-pearled car. Milton.

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

Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.

Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex. The fable of every poem is . . . simple or implex. it is called simple when there is no change of fortune in it; implex, when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. Addison.

Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. [Obs.] Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope.

Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion. Lost in the wild, inextricable maze. Blackmore.

To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate. Those curls of entangled snakes with which Erinys is said to have infuriated Athemas and Ino. Dr. H. More.

To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter. Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain. Pope.

Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable. "Bands insolvable." Pope.

f matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author. How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated, you may see by the vast difference of all copies and editions. Bp. Barlow. The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law, which was cited by Solon, or, as some think, interpolated by him f…