engle
See also: Engle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛŋɡəl/
Noun
engle (plural engles)
- A favourite; a paramour; an ingle.
- 1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (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)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
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