engle

See also: Engle

English

Noun

engle (plural engles)

  1. A favourite; a paramour; an ingle.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Verb

engle (third-person singular simple present engles, present participle engling, simple past and past participle engled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cajole or coax.
    • Ben Jonson
      I'll presently go and engle some broker.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for engle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

engle c

  1. plural indefinite of engel
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