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The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.

or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite. I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. Walton.

lack rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and F. vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.

Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. The blind mazes of this tangled wood. Milton.

To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.

upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany.

oint; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland.

To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3. He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels. Saxe. To bob at an apple, cherry, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.

different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance. S. P. Langley.

To strangle with a bowstring.

Put to death with a bowstring; strangled.

A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle. This petty brabble will undo us all. Shak.

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. [R] Shak.

The mouth of a shaft. [Cornwall] Angle brace. See under Angle.

Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.

A brave person; one who is daring. The star-spangled banner, O,long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. F. S. Key.

A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl. His sports were hindered by the brawls. Shak .

One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.

Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.