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p (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.

A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle. To their nests of sedge and sea tang. Longfellow.

To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. Tennyson. To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [Colloq.] "Are you not glad to be shot of him" Sir W. Scott.

Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.

The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.

ften consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.

To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread. "Her snarled hair." Spenser.

Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble. "More soluble is this knot." Tennyson.

The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; -- used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.

To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. [Obs.] Chapman.

A tangled mass of floating vegetal matter obstructing navigation. [Central Africa]

An entangled lock, as of hair or wool. Nares.

Entangled; intricate.

.), to manage an anchored vessel when the tide turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle the cable.

Tousled; tangled; rough; shaggy. [Colloq.]

To entangle, as in a net; to catch. [R.] Shak.

To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle.

To unwind; to untangle.

To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.

To unwind; to disentangle; to loose. [Obs.] Spenser.