Ĕn'ġi-noŭs, a.

adjective

a. 1. Pertaining to an engine. [Obs.]

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

Sense 2. Contrived with care; ingenious. [Obs.] “The mark of all their enginous drifts.” B. Jonson. “Projects enginous.” Chapman.