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capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural. His early endowments had fitted him for the work he was to do. I. Taylor.

Capacity for performing work.

To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops. Campbell.

To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.

in the science of civil engineering. -- Military engineer, one who executes engineering works of a military nature. See under Engineering.

roperties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.

Engraved work. [R.] Barrow.

One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

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

The number nine or a group of nine. The Enneads, the title given to the works of the philosopher Plotinus, published by his pupil Porphyry; -- so called because each of the six books into which it is divided contains nine chapters.

Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.] "A work of rich entail." Spenser.

That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak. Their hands can not perform their enterprise. Job v. 12.

To attribute; to ascribe. [Obs.] The ancient proverb . . . entitles this work . . . peculiarly to God himself. Milton.

his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed. F. A. Walker.

A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it. Wilhelm.

A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.

tion from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.

The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium.

A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement. [An] epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith.