Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Angles \An"gles\, n. 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.