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A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.

A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. [Obs.] Shak.

The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton.

Pertaining to an engine. [Obs.] That one act gives, like an enginous wheel, Motion to all. Decker.

nature of copper, or of the rust copper; resembling the trust of copper or verdigris; æruginous.

Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.

The act of unsheathing.

Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.

Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain. [R.] Kirwan. AA farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages. Sir T. Browne.

Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb.

Having the color or properties of the rust of iron.

Ferruginous. [R.]

Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron. Boyle.

The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness. Johnson.

Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying. -- Flag"ging*ly, adv.

from Flog, v. t. Flogging chisel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings. -- Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel.

The state of being foggy. Johnson.

a piece of hammered iron or steel. There are very few yards in the world at which such forgings could be turned out. London Times.

The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke. [R.]

Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.