What is "intangle"

Usage examples of "intangle".

Obstruct, perplex, distract, intangle, And lay perpetual trains to wrangle.

Then was I so intangled with unhappy fortune that I little esteemed mine own danger, and went willingly to eat of these roses, though I knew them to be present poyson : and as I drew neere I saw a yong man that seemed to be the gardener, come upon mee, and when he perceived that I had devoured all his hearbes in the garden, he came swearing with a great staffe n his hand, and laid upon me in such sort, that I was well nigh dead, but I speedily devised some remedy my self, for I lift up my legs and kicked him with my hinder heels, that I left him lying at the hill foot wel nigh slain, and so I ran away.

Milton puts in the mouth of Samson a fearful expression of the former: To wear out miserable days, Intangled with a poisonous bosom snake.