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One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.

See 1st Fog.

delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.

Harborage; lodging; shelter; harbor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents. I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey. Swift. What do you mean, To dote thus on such luggage! Shak.

State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage. Chattel mortgage. See under Chattel. -- To foreclose a mortgage. See under Foreclose. -- Mortgage deed (Law), a deed given by way of mortgage.

The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.

One who gives a mortgage.

gives a mortgage.

To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy. But he was preëngaged by former ties. Dryden.

Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.

To preëngage. [Obs.] Fuller.

To engage a second time or again.

A renewed or repeated engagement.

See Water gauge.

A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust.

One engaged in teaching the alphabet. Wood.

In concern with; engaged in; intent on. I must be about my Father's business. Luke ii. 49.

To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.

In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.