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An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.…

To be engaged upon or occupied with. -- To have one's hands full, to have in hand al that one can do, or more than can be done conveniently; to be pressed with labor or engagements; to be surrounded with difficulties. -- To have, or get, the (higher) upper hand, to have, or get, the better of another person or thing.…

ttle. To die in harness, to die with armor on; hence, colloquially, to die while actively engaged in work or duty.

A man engaged in harvesting. Shak.

Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly. We hastily engaged in the war. Swift.

ss (R. C. Ch.), a community of lay brothers and priests, in France and the United States, engaged chiefly in teaching and manual Labor. Originally called Brethren of St. Joseph. The Sisters of the Holy Cross engage in similar work. Addis & Arnold. -- Holy-cross day, the fourteenth of September, observed as a church fe…

The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness. Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life. Atterbury.

Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder.

Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection.

To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally. [Obs.] Or rather, gracious sir, Create me to this glory, since my cause Doth interest this fair quarrel. Ford.

Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener.

A young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station, or otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life. [Colloq., Australia]

tion, etc., to which it is applied is held in such a way that the parties in interest are engaged both together and individually thus a joint and several debt is one for which all the debtors may be sued together or either of them individually. -- Joint stock, stock held in company. -- Joint-stock company (Law), a sp…

Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant. Ayliffe.

One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i. [U.S.] Lowell.

A person engaged in watching.

India, Canada, and the United States. The nuns are called also Ladies of Loreto. They are engaged in teaching girls.

One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment. [U.S.]

To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.] Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs Dryden.

s gives motion to it in opposite directions, according to the side in which its teeth are engaged. -- Mangle wheel, a wheel in which the teeth, or pins, on its face, are interrupted on one side, and the pinion, working in them, passes from inside to outside of the teeth alternately, thus converting the continuous circ…