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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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En-fōrçe'a-ble, a. p. 447Capable of being enforced.En-fōr'çed-ly, adv. p. 447In an enforced manner; by violence; not by choice. Shak.En-fōrçe'ment, n. p. 447The act of enforcing; compulsion; restraint; force. He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master them. Raleigh. 2. A giving force to; a putting in execution. “Enforcement of strict…En-fōr'çer, n. p. 447One who enforces; one who compels or constrains; one who carries into effect.En-fōr'çi-ble, a. p. 447Capable of being enforced.En-fōr'çĭve, a. p. 447Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.En-fōr'çĭve-ly, adv. p. 447Without choice; of compulsion. Marston.En-fŏr'est, v. t. p. 447To turn into forests.En-fôrm', v. t. p. 447To form; to fashion. [Obs.] See FORM. Spenser.En-fōul'dered, a. p. 447Mixed with lightning. [Obs.] “Enfouldered smoke.” Spenser.En-frăn'chīse, v. t. p. 447To set free; to liberate from slavery; to release from custody. Bacon. 2. To make free of a city, corporation, or state; to admit to the privileges of a freeman; to naturalize; as, colonies…En-frăn'chĭse-ment, n. p. 448The act of releasing from slavery or custody. “Uncontrolled enfranchisement.” Shah. 2. Admission to the freedom of a corporation or state; investiture with the privileges of free citizens; admission…En-frăn'chis-er, n. p. 448One who enfranchises.En-free' or En-free'döm, v. t. p. 448To set free; to give freedom to. [Obs.] “The enfreed Athenor.” Shak.En-freeze', v. t. p. 448To freeze; to turn to ice; to congeal. [Obs.] Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.En-frō'ward, v. t. p. 448To make froward or perverse. [Obs.] Sandys.En-gāge', v. t. p. 448To put under pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear something, as by an oath, promise, pledge, agreement, or the like; to render liable; to bind; to involve. “Engaged by my oath.” Shak.…En-gāge', v. i. p. 448To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound. How proper the remedy for the malady, I engage not. Fuller. 2. To embark; to take a part; to employ one's self; to…En-gāged', p. a. p. 448Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed. 2. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest. Engaged columns (Arch.), columns sunk…En-gā'ged-ly, adv. p. 448With earnestness; with attachment.En-gā'ged-ness, n. p. 448The state of being seriously and earnestly occupied; zeal; animation.En-gāge'ment, n. p. 448The act of engaging, pledging, making liable, enlisting, occupying, or drawing into conflict. 2. The state of being pledged, made liable, occupied, or drawn into conflict. 3. That which is pledged or…En-gā'ger, n. p. 448One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.En-gā'ging, p. a. p. 448Tending to draw the attention or the affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. Engaging and disengaging machinery, that in which one part is alternately united to, or separated from…En-gā'ging-ly, adv. p. 448In a manner to win the affections.En-gāl'lant, v. t. p. 448To make a gallant of. [Obs.] B. Jonson.En-gāol’, v. t. p. 448To imprison. [Obs.] Shak.En-gär'boil, v. t. p. 448To throw into disorder; to disturb. [Obs.] "To engarboil the church." Mountagu.En-gär'land, v. t. p. 448To encircle with a garland. Sidney.En-găr'ri-son, v. t. p. 448To furnish with a garrison; to defend or protect by a garrison. Bp. Hall.En-găs'tri-mŭth, n. p. 448A ventriloquist. [Obs. and rare.]En-gĕn'der, v. t. p. 448To produce by the union of the sexes; to form in embryo; to procreate. 2. To cause to exist; to cause to bring forth; to produce; hence, to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.…En-gĕn'der, v. i. p. 448To 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, especially in sexual embrace. “I saw their…En-gĕn'der-er, n. p. 448One who, or that which, engenders.En-gīld′, v. t. p. 448To gild; to brighten. Shak.Ĕn'gine, n. p. 448(Mech.) A compound machine or mechanical contrivance by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. 2. Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, one…En'ǧine-drīv'er, n. p. 448One who manages an engine; especially, one who controls or directs motion by means of an engine, as a locomotive, steamboat, and the like.Ĕn'gi-neer',, n. p. 448A person skilled in the principles and practice of engineering, either civil or military. Civil engineer, a person skilled in the science of engineering, who designs and superintends the construction…Ĕn'gi-neer', v. t. p. 448To perform the work of an engineer; as, to engineer a road. Hamilton. 2. To use contrivance and effort for; to guide, or carry through, a measure or enterprise; as, to engineer a bill through…Ĕn'/gi-neer'/ing, n. p. 448The science and the art of utilizing the forces and materials of nature. In a comprehensive sense, engineering includes architecture as a mechanical art, in distinction from architecture as a fine…En’gĭne-măn, n. p. 448A man who manages an engine.En’gine-ry, n. p. 448The act of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. 2. Engines in general; instruments of war. “Trailing his devilish enginery.” Milton. 3. Artful contrivance; device; machination. [Obs.] Shenstone.Ĕn'ġine-tûrn'ing, n. p. 448A method of ornamental turning by means of a rose-engine lathe.Ĕn'ġi-noŭs, a. p. 448Pertaining to an engine. [Obs.] That one act gives, like an enginous wheel, Motion to all. Dekker. 2. Contrived with care; ingenious. [Obs.] “The mark of all their enginous drifts.” B. Jonson.…En-gĩrd', v. t. p. 448To gird; to encircle; to encompass. Shak.En-gĩrd'le, v. t. p. 448To surround as with a girdle; to gird; to encircle.En-gĩrt', v. t. p. 448To engird; to encircle. Thomson.Ĕn'ġi-scōpe, n. p. 448(Opt.) A kind of reflecting microscope; the compound microscope. [Obs.] Pritchard.En-glăd', v. t. p. 448To make glad; to cause to rejoice. Skelton.En-glāimed', a. p. 448Furred; clammy. [Obs. and rare.]Ĕn'gle, n. p. 448A favorite; a paramour; an ingle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Ĕn'gle, v. t. p. 448To cajole or coax, as a favorite might. [Obs.] “I'll go and engle some broker.” B. Jonson.En'glish, a. p. 448Belonging to England, or to its inhabitants.En'glish, n. p. 448The people of England. 2. The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in India, America, and other countries.En'glish, v. t. p. 448To translate into English; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain. Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation. Milton.En'glish-a-ble, a. p. 448Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.En'glish-man, n. p. 448(Geog.) A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.En'glish-ry, n. p. 448The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [Obs.] Cowell. 2. The population of English descent. “A general massacre of the Englishry.” Macaulay.En-glo͞om', v. t. p. 448To make gloomy. [Rare.]En-glūe', v. t. p. 448To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued. Gower.