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Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.

With attachment; with interest; earnestly.

The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.

The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.

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

Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought into gear or out of gear with another part, as occasion may require.…

To make a gallant of. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To put in jail; to imprison. [Obs.] Shak.

To throw into disorder; to disturb. [Obs.] "To engarboil the church." Bp. Montagu.

To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney.

To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison. Bp. Hall.

An ventriloquist. [Obs.]

To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife. Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth. Southey.

The act of generation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To gild; to make splendent. Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak.

Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent. Shak. You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make Bunyan. Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust. Shak.

Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. Knight.

A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.

A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.

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 by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rive…