Tangentially
(Tan*gen"tial*ly), adv. In the direction of a tangent.
Tangerine
(Tan"ger*ine`) n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but
of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin. [Written
also tangierine.]
Tangfish
(Tang"fish`) n. (Zoöl.) The common harbor seal. [Prov. Eng.]
Tanghinia
(||Tan*ghin"i*a) n. [NL.] (Bot.) The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.
Tangibility
(Tan`gi*bil"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. tanggibilité.] The quality or state of being tangible.
Tangible
(Tan"gi*ble) a. [L. tangibilis, fr. tangere to touch: cf. F. tangible. See Tangent.]
1. Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable. Bacon.
2. Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident. "A
tangible blunder." Byron.
Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and others.
Southey. — Tan"gi*ble*ness, n. — Tan"gi*bly, adv.
Tangle
(Tan"gle) 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.
2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. "Tangled in amorous nets." Milton.
When my simple weakness strays,
Tangled in forbidden ways.
Crashaw. Tangle
(Tan"gle), v. i. To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
Tangle
(Tan"gle), n.
1. [Cf. Icel. þöngull. See Tang seaweed.] (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria
saccharina. See Kelp.
Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean.
C. Kingsley. 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.
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.
Blue tangle. (Bot.)See Dangleberry. — Tangle picker (Zoöl.), the turnstone. [Prov. Eng.]
