[dan.gle] vb dan.gled ; dan.gling [prob. of Scand origin; akin to Dan dangle to dangle] vi (ca. 1590) 1: to hang loosely and usu. so as to be able to swing freely
2: to be a hanger-on or a dependent
3: to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence "the word climbing in "Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view" is dangling" ~ vt 1: to cause to dangle: swing
2. a: to keep hanging uncertainly b: to hold out as an inducement -- dan.gler n
[2]dangle n (1756) 1: the action of dangling
2: something that dangles