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Tangle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A knot of threads or other things united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; as hair or yarn in tangled.

2. A kind of sea weed.

Tangle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To be entangled or united confusedly.

Tangle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To implicate; to unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to ravel the knot.

2. To ensnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in the folds of dire necessity.

3. Tangled in amorous nets.

4. To embroil; to embarrass.

5. When my simple weakness strays,

6. Tangled in forbidden ways.

7. [Entangle, the compound, is the more elegant word.]

Tangle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

3. Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.

Tangle [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. 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.

Tangle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Tangled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Tangle

Tanglefish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.