Angler

One who fishes with an angle. (ZoR.) See LOPHIDE. Angles. ( Hist .) A German nation, which resided in what is now the province of Magdeburg, in Pru ia, near the Elbe, and probably succeeded to the former seat of the Lombards, when these latter had driven the Cherusci from the northern half of their country. In the 5th century, they joined their powerful northern neighbors, the Saxons, and, under the name of Anglo Sazons , conquered the country now called England. A part of them remained near the Danish peninsula, where, to the present day, a small tract of land, on the eastern coast of the duchy of Schleswig, bears the name Angeln. An'glesey, (the anc. Mona .) An island and county of N. Wales, in the Irish sea; connected with England, acro the Menai Strait, by the famous Menai-bridge, and the Britannia tubular railway bridge. Ext . 20 m. long and 17 broad. Rivers , Alam, Braint, Gefni, Efraw, Dulas. Towns , Beau mar is, Amlwch, Holy head. Manf . trifling. Its mines of copper, once important, have declined. A. was the last stronghold of the Druids, of whose works it has many ruins, called Cromlechs.