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▪ I. † ˈbrangle, n.1 Obs.
[Phonetic variant of branle v.; cf. brangle v.1, also brandle, bransle, brantle.]
1. A shake, an impulse, a setting in motion; = F. branle, branle, bransle.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 266 Forced, for want of a convenient agent to give them the due brangle, to lye immobile. 1653― Rabelais ii. xv. (1737) II. 123 Gave it the brangle, hurling it with all their force down the hill.
2. A kind of dance; = F. branle, branle, bransle, brantle. (Only Sc.)
1513Douglas æneis xiii. ix. 107 Vpstart Troianis, and syne Italianis, And gan do dowbill brangillis. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 66 It vas ane celest recreation to behald thei..braulis and branglis..vitht mony vthir lycht dancis.
▪ II. † ˈbrangle, n.2 Obs. exc. dial.
[f. brangle v.2: cf. F. branle.]
1. A brawl, wrangle, squabble.
1600Holland Livy iv. xxxv. 162 i, Run desperatly and blindly into a world of brangles and troubles. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xvi. 105, I will not press this too much, because it may occasion a Brangle. 1722De Foe Mem. Cavaliers (1840) 154 The feuds and brangles of this parliament. 1875Lanc. Gloss., Brangle, a quarrel or squabble.
2. ? A state of confusion, a muddle.
1865Morning Star 26 May, The bill had got into that unfortunate state which the right hon. gentleman..was in the habit of calling a ‘brangle’.
▪ III. † brangle, v.1 Obs.|ˈbræŋg(ə)l|
[A phonetic variant of branle v., a. Fr. branler: cf. brandle v.]
1. trans. To shake; to brandish, flourish (a sword, etc.); to wag (the head); to sway to and fro, cause to totter.
1513Douglas æneis xii. ii. 111 The schaft he schuike, and branglis lustely. 1653Urquhart Rabelais iii. xlv, Charmides shook and brangled his head. a1684Leighton Serm. xxviii. 414 Will the pillars be brangled.
b. fig. To shake (in mind), cause to waver.
a1600Throgmorton in Sir. J. Melvil Mem. (1683) 61 Retaining the hearts of those you have gained already, recovering of those who are brangled. 1634–46Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 426 The people were brangled and shaken with contrarie doctrines. 1730T. Boston Mem. vii. 208 In case it should misgive it would brangle me terribly.
c. To render uncertain.
1608Merry Devil Edm. in Hazl. Dodsley X. 228 The title [to some land] is so brangled with thy debts.
2. intr. To shake, totter.
1513Douglas æneis ii. xi. [x.] 119 The tree branglis bosting to the fall. 1549Compl. Scot. vii. 68 Ane croune of gold, hingand, & brangland, that it vas lyik to fal doune.
▪ IV. † ˈbrangle, v.2 Obs. or arch.
Also 6 Sc. brangill.
[perh. a particular use of prec., influenced in meaning by wrangle (14th c.), and possibly by brabble, brawl, with which it is nearly synon.]
intr. To wrangle, squabble, dispute contentiously.
1553Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 125 That brangillis [ed. Small braulis] thus with thi boast. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. ii. (1641) 93/1 Flesh & bloud will brangle, And murmuring Reason with th' Almighty wrangle. 1684tr. Agrippa's Van. Arts lxxxiii. 292 With what Heat..they brangle about the sick-mans bed. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. i. 241 Thus wrangled, brangled, jangled they a month. |