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To range about in an irregular manner. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

one end, and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.

A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.

Rectangular. Hutton.

Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.

The half of a given, or measuring, angle.

A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon. [R.]

A hexagon. [R.] Hutton.

Having six angles; hexagonal. [R.] Dryden.

Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. "The rich spangles that adorn the sky." Waller. Oak spangle. See under Oak.

One who, or that which, spangles.

Spangled or studded with stars. Star-spangled banner, the popular name for the national ensign of the United States. F. S. Key.

he throat, as with the hand or a rope. Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. Ayliffe.

In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.

Capable of being strangled. [R.] Chesterfield.

One who, or that which, strangles. "The very strangler of their amity." Shak.

A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.

nterweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.

The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.

A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.