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interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.

The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.

To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.

To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

One that entangles.

See Entangle.

To entangle; to intertwine. "Moss and intertangled vines." Longfellow.

A pentagon. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.

Rectangular. Hutton.

A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon. [R.]

To disentangle.

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

In collision; entangled. Totten. To run afoul of, to run against or come into collision with, especially so as to become entangled or to cause injury.

gs over the bottom as the ship drifts. -- Foul anchor, the anchor when it hooks, or is entangled with, another anchor, or with a cable or wreck, or when the slack cable entangled. -- The anchor is acockbill, when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cathead, ready to be let go. -- The anchor is apeak, when the c…

To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.

A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.

A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.