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To be angry. [Obs.] Hooker.

Angry and obstinate; sulky. [U. S.]

Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose. And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. Prior.

ns of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail. Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point. Shak.

state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance. Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be angry. Locke.

Hence, any instrument of use or service. That angry fool . . . Whipping her house, did with his amarting tool Oft whip her dainty self. Spenser.

To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak. As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. Spenser.

ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly. He sheaths his paw, uncurls his angry mane. Dryden.

To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease. "I will not vex your souls." Shak. Then thousand torments vex my heart. Prior.

The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft. R. Browning. An angry wafture of your hand. Shak.

relatively. They vote; whereat his speech he thus renews. Milton. Whereat he was no less angry and ashamed than desirous to obey Zelmane. Sir P. Sidney.

An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.

An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. "Noisy and contentious wranglers." I. Watts.

Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man.

Very angry. [Colloq.]

Angry; vexed; wrathful. [Obs.] With this speech the cock wex wroth and wraw. Chaucer.

Revengeful; angry; furious. [Obs.] -- Wreak"ful*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful. "Wroth to see his kingdom fail." Milton. Revel and truth as in a low degree, They be full wroth [i. e., at enmity] all day. Chaucer. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Gen. iv. 5.

Furious; mad; angry; fierce. [Obs.] "Then wexeth wood and yond." Spenser.