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rivance; an agent. Shak. You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make Bunyan. Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust. Shak.

Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. Knight.

A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.

A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.

In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rive…

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.

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.

An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.

A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.

A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the heat generated ignites the fuel (usually crude oil), the fuel being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under pressure. The Diesel engine has a very high thermal efficiency.

A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any internal-combustion engine.

A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually petrol engine.

Designating, or pertaining to, any engine (called an Internal- combustion engine) in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder, as by the explosion of a gas, and not in a separate chamber, as in a steam- engine boiler. The gas used may be a fixed gas, or one deriv…

Evil machination; guile; deceit. [Obs.] Gower.

An engine using the Otto cycle.

An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type (the radial type) having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft.

A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.

See Radial engine, above.