engle

plural engles

1. alternativeobsoleteAlternative spelling of ingle (“paramour”)

   What between his Mistress Abroad, and his Engle at Home, high Fare, soft Lodging[…]

   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)

present singular third person engles · participle present engling · participle past engled · past engled

1. alternativeobsoleteAlternative spelling of ingle (“cajole”)

   I'll presently go and engle some broker.

   1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii

   Synonyms: butter up, inveigle, sweet-talk, blandander, blandish, butter up, cajole, sweeten

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Sierra County, New Mexico.
   2. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas.
   3. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
3. historicalSynonym of Angle (“member of the tribe of Angles”).

   The Engle or English man absorbed the Saxon, absorbed the Jute, but himself remained English.

   1907, Joseph Pomeroy Widney, The Old World, page 255

   Synonyms: Angle