Word Meanings - TANGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Entangled; intricate. 2. Covered with tangle, or seaweed. Prone, helpless, on the tangly beach he lay. Falconer.

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• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• 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,
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• INTRICATELY
  In an intricate manner.
• HELPLESS
  1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant. How shall I then your helpless fame defend Pope. 2. Beyond help; irremediable. Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• TANGLEFISH
  The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.
• BEACHY
  Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. The beachy girdle of the ocean. Shak.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• ENTANGLEMENT
  State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• TANGLY
  1. Entangled; intricate. 2. Covered with tangle, or seaweed. Prone, helpless, on the tangly beach he lay. Falconer.
• COVERTLY
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• COVER
  operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And
• FALCONER
  A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.
• COVERING
  Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering
• BEACH
  1. Pebbles, collectively; shingle. 2. The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. Beach flea , the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ,
• COVERAGE
  The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• UNTANGLE
  To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• DISCOVERY
  1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
• IRRECOVERABLE
  Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.
• DISCOVERER
  1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.
• RECOVERANCE
  Recovery.
• INDISCOVERY
  Want of discovery.