engle

See also: Engle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛŋɡəl/

Noun

engle (plural engles)

1. A favourite; a paramour; an ingle.
   • 1609 December (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     What between his Mistress Abroad, and his Engle at Home, high Fare, soft Lodging […]

Verb

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

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cajole or coax.
   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:

     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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Engel, gleen, glene

Danish

Noun

engle c

1. indefinite plural of engel

Middle English

Noun

engle

1. Alternative form of hengel