Engendrure
En′gen‐drure″ (?), n. [OF. engendreure.] The act of generation. Chaucer.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Engild
En‐gild″ (?), v. t. To gild; to make splendent.Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak.
Engine
En″gine (?), n. [F. engin skill, machine, engine, L. ingenium natural capacity, invention; in in + the root of gignere to produce. See Genius, and cf. Ingenious, Gin a snare.] 1...
Engine (2)
En″gine, v. t. 1. To assault with an engine.To engine and batter our walls. T. Adams.2. To equip with an engine; — said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built ...
Engine-sized
En″gine–sized′ (?), a. Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; — said of paper. Knight.
Engine-type generator
En″gine–type′ gen″er‐a′tor. (Elec.) A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.
Engineer
En′gi‐neer″ (?), n. [OE. enginer: cf. OF. engignier, F. ingénieur. See Engine, n.] 1. A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Eng...
Engineer (2)
En′gi‐neer″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Engineered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Engineering.] 1. To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engine...
Engineer Corps
En′gi‐neer″ Corps. (a) In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded...
Engineering
En′gi‐neer″ing, n. Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to...
Engineman
En″gine‐man (?), n.; pl.Enginemen (�). A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.
Enginer
En″gin‐er (?), n. [See Engineer.] A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak.
Enginery
En″gine‐ry (?), n. 1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton.2. Engines, in general; instruments of war.Training his devilish enginery. Milton.3. Any device or...
Enginous
En″gi‐nous (?), a. [OF. engignos. See Ingenious.] 1. Pertaining to an engine.That one act gives, like an enginous wheel,Motion to all. Decker.2. Contrived with care; ingenious.T...
Engird
En‐gird″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Engirded or Engirt (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Engirding.] [Pref. en- + gird. Cf. Ingirt.] To gird; to encompass. Shak.
Engirdle
En‐gir″dle (?), v. t. To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
Engirt
En‐girt″ (?), v. t. To engird. Collins.
Engiscope
En″gi‐scope (?), n. [Gr. � near + -scope.] (Opt.) A kind of reflecting microscope.
Englaimed
En‐glaimed″ (?), a. [OE. engleimen to smear, gleim birdlime, glue, phlegm.] Clammy.
Engle
En″gle (?), n. [OE. enghle to coax or cajole. Cf. Angle a hook, one easily enticed, a gull, Ingle.] A favorite; a paramour; an ingle. B. Jonson.
Engle (2)
En″gle, v. t. To cajole or coax, as favorite.I 'll presently go and engle some broker. B. Jonson.
English
Eng″lish (?), a. [AS. Englisc, fr. Engle, Angle, Engles, Angles, a tribe of Germans from the southeast of Sleswick, in Denmark, who settled in Britain and gave it the name of En...
English (2)
Eng″lish, n. 1. Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.2. The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, a...
English (3)
Eng″lish, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Englished (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Englishing.] 1. To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.Those gracious a...
Englishable
Eng″lish‐a‐ble (?), a. Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
Englishism
Eng″lish‐ism (?), n. 1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold.2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.
Englishman
Eng″lish‐man (–man), n.; pl.Englishmen (–men). A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.