Angle

1. n. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
2. n. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
3. n. The figure made by. two lines which meet.
4. n. The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
5. n. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
6. n. A name given to four of the twelve astrological “houses.”

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.