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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.

A wrangling, noisy fellow.

Jangling. [Obs.] Chaucer.

nds of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.

The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.

One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies. Sir W. Raleigh. Angling was ... a moderator of passions. Walton.

The process of tying together the ends of yarns in pairs, to prevent tangling.

Capture of fishes, as by angling. [R.] W. H. Russell.

al trickery. When we say that two men are talking politics, we often mean that they are wrangling about some mere party question. F. W. Robertson.

pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.

The act of untwisting, or of disentangling.

A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.

Resembling, or consisting of, snares; entangling; insidious. Spiders in the vault their snary webs have spread. Dryden.

The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.

To twang. While the twangling violin Struck up with Soldier-laddie. Tennyson.

To make a bet; to lay a wager. 'T was merry when You wagered on your angling. Shak.

rily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate. "In spite of occasional wranglings." Macaulay. For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle. Shak. He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points. Addison.