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

A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. [R.] A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift.

Wrangle; brangle. [Obs.]

A quarrelsome person.

To free from wrangling or litigation. [Obs.] Berkeley.

To confuse; to entangle. I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley.

To strangle. [Obs.]

To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly. [R.] Hudibras. Physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic. Coleridge.

A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles.

the 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.

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

rcate. "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.

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

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

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

The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.