Word Meanings - INSNARL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. Cotgrave.

SNARL
To form raised work upon the outer surface of by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
ENTANGLE
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. 2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence,
ENTANGLEMENT
State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
SNARLER
One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.
SNARLING
from Snarl, v. Snarling iron, a tool with a long beak, used in the process of snarling. When one end is held in a vise, and the shank is struck with a hammer, the repercussion of the other end, or beak, within the article worked upon gives
ENTANGLER
One that entangles.
INSNARL
To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. Cotgrave.
ENSNARL
To entangle. Spenser.
DISENTANGLE
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. 2. To extricate from complication and
UNENTANGLE
To disentangle.
PENTANGLE
A pentagon. Sir T. Browne.
DISENTANGLEMENT
The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.