Wiktionary
vb. (context dated English) To hang upon importunately; to court the favour of; to beset.
Usage examples of "dangle after".
The thing is that I must not encourage Torquil to dangle after me, and I shall find it awkward to keep a proper distance, after the habits of easy intercourse we have acquired.
Thing is, this Camille of Kit's looked to me asthough he meant to dangle after her.
After all, had not Keffria chosen a life that demanded strength, while Althea had gone off to dangle after her father and play?
Only think how disagreeable it would be if people said you were encouraging Mr Calverleigh to dangle after you!
His understanding was not quick, nor had he much power of perception, but it had lately been borne in upon him that his heir had begun to dangle after his cousin in a marked manner.
But to be encouraging Talgarth to dangle after her is the outside of enough.
Aren't there enough women to dangle after around here without sniffing around Regan's friend?
He understood why Harry should be anxious, and owned that he had wondered, at first, if Alverstoke meant to dangle after Charis.
I mean that I will not allow Lovelace to dangle after you, however.
Lot's an amb itious man, he'd not dangle after a bastard when there was a true-born princ ess to be had.
In the heat and the dust, the ever-shifting sea of men on land and water from horizon to horizon, I was sure discomfort would hound her home without my having to dangle after her.