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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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840 words match “ANGLE”

Having three angles; triangular.

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

To disentangle.

To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.

rike (Lanius collurio); -- called also würger, worrier, and throttler. [Written also warriangle, weirangle, etc.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

See Wariangle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

See Wariangle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- applied to certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50º or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100º and are useful for photographing at short range, but the pictures appear distorted.

Same as Wariangle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

WRANGLE v. 4 definitions

cate. "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.

WRANGLER n. 2 definitions

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

WRANGLERSHIP n.

The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England.

Contentious; quarrelsome. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.

the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

ACUTE a. 2 definitions

at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.

The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.

a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.