Froward; peevish.

noun. A snarl of threads or other things united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged.

noun. A device used in dredging, for sweeping the sea-bed in order to obtain delicate forms of marine life, too small or frangible to be obtained by ordinary dredging.

noun. A perplexity or embarrassment; a complication.

To unite or knit together confusedly; interweave or interlace, as threads, so as to make it difficult to separate them; snarl.

To catch or involve as in a snarl; entrap; entangle.

To embroil; embarrass; confuse; perplex; involve; complicate.

Synonyms To entangle, intertwine, snarl (up).

To be entangled or united confusedly.

noun. A name of various large species of seaweed, especially Laminaria digitata and L. saccharina. See cut under seaweed. Also called tangle-wrack and hanger.

noun. A tall, lank person; any long dangling thing.

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

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To involve; to insnare; to entrap.

noun. Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See kelp.

noun. A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl

noun. 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.

noun. ee Dangleberry.

noun. the turnstone.

noun. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.

verb. to become mixed together or intertwined

verb. to be forced into some kind of situation

verb. to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight

verb. to mix together or intertwine

verb. to catch and hold

noun. a tangled twisted mass

noun. a complicated or confused state or condition

noun. an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight

noun. A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.

verb. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

verb. disarrange or rumple; dishevel

noun. something jumbled or confused

noun. a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven

verb. tangle or complicate

verb. twist together or entwine into a confusing mass

"The best way to make sense of this legal tangle is to mouse over the title of an individual scandal, which will highlight everyone implicated."

confusion  entanglement  forest tangle  tangle tent  

disarrange  enlace  entwine  interlace  intertwine  

Angle  Wrangell  angle  bangle  dangle  

bare  clump  dense  knot  leafy  

Chinese puzzle  Gordian knot  Rube Goldberg contraption  a outrance  absorb  

kelp  

tangled  tangles  tangless  tangling