v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disentangled p. pr. & vb. n. Disentangling ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate. [ 1913 Webster ]

To disentangle truth from error. Stewart. [ 1913 Webster ]

To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Syn. -- To loose; extricate; disembarrass; disembroil; clear; evolve; disengage; separate; detach. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. freed from an entanglement; -- of people or agents.
Syn. -- extricated, freed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. straightened out.
Syn. -- loosened, unsnarled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Entangled p. pr. & vb. n. Entangling ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. “Entangling alliances.” Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. in a confused mass. Contrasted with untangled. [ Narrower terms: afoul(postnominal), foul, fouled; knotted, snarled, snarly; matted; rootbound; intertwined ]
Syn. -- tangled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. deeply involved especially in something problematic; as, entangled in the conflict.
Syn. -- embroiled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. constrained by or as if by a convoluted rope or net; ensnared. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) An extensive low obstacle formed of stakes, stumps, or the like, connected by wires, ropes, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. (Naut.) An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbor entrance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One that entangles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Entangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To entangle; to intertwine. “Moss and intertangled vines.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Penta- + angle. ] A pentagon. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. rectus right + angulus angle. See Right, and Angle. ] (Geom.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ As the area of a rectangle is expressed by the product of its two dimensions, the term rectangle is sometimes used for product; as, the rectangle of a and b, that is, ab. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rectangular. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rectangular. Hutton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Septi- + angle. ] (Geom.) A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tangled p. pr. & vb. n. Tangling ] [ A frequentative fr. tang seaweed; hence, to twist like seaweed. See Tang seaweed, and cf. Tangle, n. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. “Tangled in amorous nets.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

When my simple weakness strays,
Tangled in forbidden ways. Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. [ Cf. Icel. þöngull. See Tang seaweed. ] (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ From Tangle, v. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blue tangle. (Bot.)See Dangleberry. --
Tangle picker (Zool.), the turnstone. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + entangle. ] To disentangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + tangle. ] To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. [ 1913 Webster ]

Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]