Crossword clues for tangling
tangling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. A tangled structure. vb. (present participle of tangle English)
Usage examples of "tangling".
The view from the port consisted now of mud, tangling vines, and a distant cluster of trees, dark and musty.
She sat up and found that they still forded mud between banks of tangling vines.
Jahna was startled to see the tangling infant she had returned to the nursery packed snugly into the bottom of the basket.
Despite their obvious social dominance, they had been significantly outnumbered by tangling males.
Because both parents must be either mockdirad, tangling, or female carrier, as you term it.
So if tangling is not able to function, he will be fed and tended anyway.
If his father is unknown or a tangling, the grove Dirad takes custody and designates one of the younger mockdirad to act as pelt-father.
Any mockdirad, I should add, has access to any female in his grove, even if she is formally pledged to a tangling male.
So now, since Beck has not yet taught dirad to distinguish between a live tangling and a dead huttown child, we will have to sanctify this death ourselves.
Below, the two Neldings conferred, the tangling gesticulating urgently, Valor peering out past him in distress.
Finally they reached some accord and the tangling disappeared into the rain.
A lantern-jawed tangling, his gray hide like armor, thick and plated, crept through the fear-struck mockdirad.
The courtyard presented a prospect of frozen faces, tangling and mockdirad.
Mockdirad and tangling, as stunned as she, shrank back to allow her passage.
If no one claims her from her birth-mother and if her birth-mother is a tangling, she will soon develop the tangling characteristics of her mother and of any other individuals to whom she is much exposed during her first year.