ppl. a. [f. ANGLE v.2, sb.2 + -ED.]
† 1. Driven into, or stationed in, a corner. Obs.
1575. Turberville, Venerie, 193. The vermine is Angled (which is to say, gone to the furdest parte of his chamber to stand at defence).
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, 514. The angry beast to his best chamber flies, And (angled there) sits grimly intergerning.
2. Placed angularly, or at angles with each other.
1852. D. Moir, Seton Chapel, ii. Poet. Wks. I. 188. The angled bones, the sand-glass, and the scythe.
3. Having an angle or angles; having an outline marked by angles.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., I. 5. Her hauen angled so about her harb’rous sound that in her quiet Bay a hundred ships may ride.
1699. J. Jones, in Misc. Cur. (1708), III. 381. Two or three other sorts of Seeds … one is black and angled.
1788. Edin. New Disp., I. ii. (1797), 55. A crucible which is angled at the top for the conveniency of pouring out.
1825. H. Gascoigne, Naval Fame, 50. The angl’d Jib with speed they hoist away.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 195. Tussilago Farfara; leaves … angled or lobed toothed.
4. -angled: having (such or so many) angles, as acute-angled, three-angled, many-angled, etc.
1597. Bp. Hall, Sat., III. i. (1602), 46 (T.).
| As for the thrise three-angled beech nut-shell, | |
| Or chesnuts armed huske, and hid kernell. |
1625. B. Jonson, Staple of Newes, VI. ii. (1631), 52 (T.). Cuts fifty angled custards.
1660. Barrow, Euclid, I. def. 28. An Oxygonium, or acute-angled Triangle, is that which has three acute angles.
1811. Hutton, Course Math., III. 77. A right-angled spherical triangle has one right angle.
