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ercate. "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.

Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.

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

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

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

Wrangle; brangle. [Obs.]

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.

To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words. Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge. Bacon.

One who litigates or wrangles. [Obs.]

swinging or jerking motion. he'd rather on a gibbet dangle Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle. Hudibras. From her lifted hand Dangled a length of ribbon. Tennyson. To dangle about or after, to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset. The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle after them, are…

ained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. Therefore disputed [reasoned, Rev. Ver .] he in synagogue with the Jews. Acts xvii. 17.

A caviler; a wrangler. [Obs.] Baret.

To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle. Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree. Shak. Prussian Trenck . . . jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner. Carlyle.

One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.