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ENGINEERING 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 man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.
ENGINEMAN n.
A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.
ENGINER n.
A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. [Obs.] Shak.
ENGINERY n. 3 definitions
The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton.
ENGINOUS a. 2 definitions
Pertaining to an engine. [Obs.] That one act gives, like an enginous wheel, Motion to all. Decker.
ENGIRD v.
To gird; to encompass. Shak.
ENGIRDLE v.
To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
ENGIRT v.
To engird. [R.] Collins.
ENGISCOPE n.
A kind of reflecting microscope. [Obs.]
ENGLAIMED a.
Clammy. [Obs.]
ENGLE v. 2 definitions
To cajole or coax, as favorite. [Obs.] I 'll presently go and engle some broker. B. Jonson.
ENGLISH a. 8 definitions
Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. English bond (Arch.)
ENGLISHABLE a.
Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
ENGLISHISM n. 2 definitions
A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold.
ENGLISHMAN n.
A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
ENGLISHRY n. 2 definitions
The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [Obs.] Cowell.
ENGLISHWOMAN n.
Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
ENGLOOM v.
To make gloomy. [R.]
ENGLUE v.
To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued. Gower.
ENGLUT v. 2 definitions
To glut. [Obs.] "Englutted with vanity." Ascham.
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