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Webster 1913 Edition
Angles
An′gles
,Noun.
pl.
[L.
Angli
. See Anglican
.] (Ethnol.)
An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of
Angeln
(now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.