Enforest Enˇfor"est transitive verb To turn into a forest.

Enform Enˇform" transitive verb [ French enformer . See Inform .] To form; to fashion. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Enfouldred Enˇfoul"dred adjective [ Prefix en- + Old French fouldre , foldre , lightning, French foudre , Latin fulgur .] Mixed with, or emitting, lightning. [ Obsolete] "With foul enfouldred smoke." Spenser.

Enframe Enˇframe" transitive verb To inclose, as in a frame.

Enfranchise Enˇfran"chise transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Enfranchised ; present participle & verbal noun Enfranchising .] [ Prefix en- + franchise : confer French enfranchir .] 1. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon.

2. To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.

3. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.

Enfranchisement Enˇfran"chiseˇment noun 1. Releasing from slavery or custody. Shak.

2. Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.

Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law) , the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.

Enfranchiser Enˇfran"chisˇer noun One who enfranchises.

Enfree Enˇfree" transitive verb To set free. [ Obsolete] "The enfreed Antenor." Shak.

Enfreedom Enˇfree"dom transitive verb To set free. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Enfreeze Enˇfreeze" transitive verb To freeze; to congeal. [ Obsolete]

Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast.

Spenser.

Enfroward Enˇfro"ward transitive verb To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. [ Obsolete] Sir E. Sandys.

Engage Enˇgage" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Engaged ; present participle & verbal noun Engaging .] [ French engager ; prefix en- (L. in ) + gage pledge, pawn. See Gage .] 1. To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise. "I to thee engaged a prince's word." Shak.

2. To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.

3. To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.

Good nature engages everybody to him.

Addison.

4. To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.

Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage .

Pope.

Taking upon himself the difficult task of engaging him in conversation.

Hawthorne.

5. To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.

A favorable opportunity of engaging the enemy.

Ludlow.

6. (Machinery) To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.

Engage Enˇgage" intransitive verb 1. To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.

How proper the remedy for the malady, I engage not.

Fuller.

2. To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.

3. To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.

4. (Machinery) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.

Engaged Enˇgaged" adjective 1. Occupied; employed; busy.

2. Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.

3. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.

4. Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight.

Engaged column . (Architecture) Same as Attached column . See under Attach , transitive verb

Engagedly Enˇga"gedˇly adverb With attachment; with interest; earnestly.

Engagedness Enˇga"gedˇness noun The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.

Engagement Enˇgage"ment noun [ Confer French engagement .] 1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.

2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.

3. That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office.

Religion, which is the chief engagement of our league.

Milton.

4. (Mil.) An action; a fight; a battle.

In hot engagement with the Moors.

Dryden.

5. (Machinery) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.

Syn. -- Vocation; business; employment; occupation; promise; stipulation; betrothal; word; battle; combat; fight; contest; conflict. See Battle .

Engager Enˇga"ger noun One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.

Several sufficient citizens were engagers .

Wood.

Engaging Enˇga"ging adjective Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly , adverb - - En*ga"ging*ness , noun

Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery , that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought into gear or out of gear with another part, as occasion may require.

Engallant Enˇgal"lant transitive verb To make a gallant of. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.

Engaol Enˇgaol" transitive verb [ Prefix en- + gaol : confer Old French engaoler , engeoler . See Gaol , and confer Enjail .] To put in jail; to imprison. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Engarboil Enˇgar"boil transitive verb [ Prefix en- + garboil .] To throw into disorder; to disturb. [ Obsolete] "To engarboil the church." Bp. Montagu.

Engarland Enˇgar"land transitive verb [ Prefix en- + garland : confer French enguirlander .] To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney.

Engarrison Enˇgar"riˇson transitive verb To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison. Bp. Hall.

Engastrimuth Enˇgas"triˇmuth noun [ Greek ...; ... in + ... belly + ... to speak: confer French engastrimythe .] An ventriloquist. [ Obsolete]

Engender Enˇgen"der transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Engendered ; present participle & verbal noun Engendering .] [ French engender , Latin ingenerare ; in + generare to beget. See Generate , and confer Ingenerate .] 1. To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [ R.]

2. To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.

Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth.

Southey.

Syn. -- To breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call forth; cause; excite; develop.

Engender Enˇgen"der intransitive verb 1. To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.

Dryden.

2. To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender ." Massinger.

Engender Enˇgen"der noun One who, or that which, engenders.

Engendrure En`genˇdrure" noun [ Old French engendreure .] The act of generation. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Engild Enˇgild" transitive verb To gild; to make splendent.

Fair Helena, who most engilds the night.

Shak.

Engine En"gine noun [ French engin skill, machine, engine, Latin ingenium natural capacity, invention; in in + the root of gignere to produce. See Genius , and confer Ingenious , Gin a snare.] 1. (Pronounced, in this sense, .............) Natural capacity; ability; skill. [ Obsolete]

A man hath sapiences three,
Memory, engine , and intellect also.

Chaucer.

2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; 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.

3. Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. "Terrible engines of death." Sir W. Raleigh.

4. (Machinery) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.

Engine driver , one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive. -- Engine lathe . (Machinery) See under Lathe . -- Engine tool , a machine tool. J. Whitworth. -- Engine turning (Fine Arts) , a method of ornamentation by means of a rose engine.

» The term engine is more commonly applied to massive machines, or to those giving power, or which produce some difficult result. Engines, as motors, are distinguished according to the source of power, as steam engine , air engine , electro- magnetic engine ; or the purpose on account of which the power is applied, as fire engine , pumping engine , locomotive engine ; or some peculiarity of construction or operation, as single-acting or double-acting engine , high- pressure or low-pressure engine , condensing engine , etc.

Engine En"gine transitive verb 1. To assault with an engine. [ Obsolete]

To engine and batter our walls.

T. Adams.

2. To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

3. (Pronounced, in this sense, ................) To rack; to torture. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Engine-sized En"gine-sized` adjective Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. Knight.

Engine-type generator En"gine-type` gen"erˇa`tor (Electricity) A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.

Engineer En`giˇneer" noun [ Middle English enginer : confer Old French engignier , French ingénieur . See Engine , noun ] 1. A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering , noun

2. One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

3. One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager. [ Colloq.]

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

Engineer En`giˇneer" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Engineered ; present participle & verbal noun Engineering .] 1. To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road. J. Hamilton.

2. To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. [ Colloq.]

Engineer Corps En`giˇneer" Corps (a) 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 rivers and harbors, the construction of lighthouses, etc., and, in time of war, supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field. (b) In the United States navy, a corps made up of the engineers, which was amalgamated with the line by act of March 3, 1899. It consisted of assistant and passed assistant engineers , ranking with ensigns and lieutenants, chief engineers , ranking from lieutenant to captain, and engineer in chief , ranking with commodore and having charge of the Bureau of Steam Engineering.

Engineering En`giˇneer"ing noun 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.

» In a comprehensive sense, engineering includes architecture as a mechanical art, in distinction from architecture as a fine art. It was formerly divided into military engineering , which is the art of designing and constructing offensive and defensive works, and civil engineering , in a broad sense, as relating to other kinds of public works, machinery, etc. -- Civil engineering , in modern usage, is strictly the art of planning, laying out, and constructing fixed public works, such as railroads, highways, canals, aqueducts, water works, bridges, lighthouses, docks, embankments, breakwaters, dams, tunnels, etc. -- Mechanical engineering relates to machinery, such as steam engines, machine tools, mill work, etc. -- Mining engineering deals with the excavation and working of mines, and the extraction of metals from their ores, etc. Engineering is further divided into steam engineering, gas engineering, agricultural engineering, topographical engineering, electrical engineering, etc.

Engineman En"gineˇman noun ; plural Enginemen A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.

Enginer En"ginˇer noun [ See Engineer .] A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Enginery En"gineˇry noun 1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton.

2. Engines, in general; instruments of war.

Training his devilish enginery .

Milton.

3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone.

Enginous En"giˇnous adjective [ Old French engignos . See Ingenious .] 1. Pertaining to an engine. [ Obsolete]

That one act gives, like an enginous wheel,
Motion to all.

Decker.

2. Contrived with care; ingenious. [ Obsolete]

The mark of all enginous drifts.

B. Jonson.

Engird Enˇgird" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Engirded or Engirt ; present participle & verbal noun Engirding .] [ Prefix en- + gird . Confer Ingirt .] To gird; to encompass. Shak.

Engirdle Enˇgir"dle transitive verb To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.

Engirt Enˇgirt" transitive verb To engird. [ R.] Collins.

Engiscope En"giˇscope noun [ Greek ... near + -scope .] (Opt.) A kind of reflecting microscope. [ Obsolete]

Englaimed Enˇglaimed" adjective [ Middle English engleimen to smear, gleim birdlime, glue, phlegm.] Clammy. [ Obsolete]

Engle En"gle noun [ Middle English enghle to coax or cajole. Confer Angle a hook, one easily enticed, a gull, Ingle .] A favorite; a paramour; an ingle. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.

Engle En"gle transitive verb To cajole or coax, as favorite. [ Obsolete]

I 'll presently go and engle some broker.

B. Jonson.

English Eng"lish adjective [ Anglo-Saxon Englisc , from Engle , Angle , Engles, Angles, a tribe of Germans from the southeast of Sleswick, in Denmark, who settled in Britain and gave it the name of England . Confer Anglican .] Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.

English bond (Architecture) See 1st Bond , noun , 8. -- English breakfast tea . See Congou . -- English horn . (Mus.) See Corno Inglese . -- English walnut . (Botany) See under Walnut .

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