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The trade or work of an engraver. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.

To aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To grieve. [Obs.] Spenser.

To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity. [Obs.] Waves . . . engrossed with mud. Spenser. Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. Shak.

One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.

The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed. Engrossments of power and favor. Swift.

To surround as with a guard. [Obs.] Shak.

To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf. It quite engulfs all human thought. Young.

A swallowing up as if in a gulf. [R.]

Variant of Engine. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To surround with a halo.

To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser.

The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

To find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit. W. Browne.

To harden; to embolden. [Obs.] Howell.

Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate.

In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.

To give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden. The enemy exults and is enheartened. I. Taylor.