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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• gleen, glene

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Danish

Noun

engle c

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of engel