||Tan*ghin"i*a (?), n. [NL.] (Bot.) The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.
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Tan`gi*bil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. tanggibilité.] The quality or state of
being tangible.
Tan"gi*ble (?), a. [L. tangibilis, fr. tangere to touch: cf. F.
tangible. See Tangent.] 1. Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
Bacon.
2. Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the
mind; real; substantial; evident. "A tangible blunder." Byron.
Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and others.
Southey.
— Tan"gi*ble*ness, n. — Tan"gi*bly, adv.
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.] 1. 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.
2. 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.
Tan"gle, v. i. To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a
tangle.
Tan"gle, n. 1. [Cf. Icel. þöngull. See Tang seaweed.] (Bot.) Any large
blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean.