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- English Word Angle Definition The figure made by. two lines which meet.
- English Word Angle Definition The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
- English Word Angle Definition A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
- English Word Angle Definition A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses."
- English Word Angle Definition A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
- English Word Angle Definition To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line.
- English Word Angle Definition To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.
- English Word Angle Definition To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.
- English Word Angled Definition of Angle
- English Word Angled Definition Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right-angled, many-angled, etc.
- English Word Anglemeter Definition An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata.
- English Word Angler Definition One who angles.
- English Word Angler Definition A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.
- English Word Angles Definition An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.
- English Word Anglesite Definition A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.
- English Word Anglewise Definition In an angular manner; angularly.
- English Word Angleworm Definition A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm.
- English Word Anglian Definition Of or pertaining to the Angles.
- English Word Anglian Definition One of the Angles.
- English Word Anglic Definition Anglian.