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Tangle   /tˈæŋgəl/   Listen
noun
Tangle  n.  
1.
(Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp. "Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean."
2.
A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
3.
pl. An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
Blue tangle. (Bot.)See Dangleberry.
Tangle picker (Zool.), the turnstone. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Tangle  v. t.  (past & past part. tangled; pres. part. tangling)  
1.
To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
2.
To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. "Tangled in amorous nets." "When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways."


Tangle  v. i.  To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.





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"Tangle" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I've got Tangle's opinion here," answered Tom; "I won't ask you to look at it, uncle. He's dead against us. Just what you said six months back. There's no getting over that trust-deed, nor through it, nor round it, nor any way to the other ...
— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville
... service in its heyday was a fearful and wonderful thing. Little by little, as spies were "shadowed," captured, and their papers examined, the whole far-reaching tangle was revealed. One can tell only a little here about this tangle—for to tell it all would take ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood
... not to be; it is not for nothing that we are heirs to the ages. Therefore the art that utters and expresses our emotion towards modern life cannot be simple; and, moreover, it must before all things embody not only that living tangle which is felt by the Futurists as so real, but it must purge and order it, by complexities of tone and rhythm hitherto unattempted. One art, beyond all others, has blossomed into real, spontaneous, unconscious life to-day, and that is Music; the other arts stand round arrayed, half paralyzed, ...
— Ancient Art and Ritual • Jane Ellen Harrison
... roving breezes, I charge you, forbear To wantonly tangle The braids of her hair; Breathe not o'er her rudely, Nor sigh on her breast, Nor kiss you the sweet lip ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... smothered in a dark tangle of shrubbery. Peter called twice before he heard the shuffle of house slippers, and then saw the Captain's dressing-gown at ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling


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