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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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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.En-glŭt', v. t. p. 448To swallow or gulp down. [Obs.] Shak. 2. To fill; to glut. [Obs.] “Minds which choler doth englut.” Spenser.En-gōre', v. t. p. 448To pierce; to gore. [Obs.] Spenser.En-gôrġe', v. t. p. 448To gorge; to swallow with greediness. Spenser.En-gôrġe', v. i. p. 448To feed with eagerness or voracity; to devour voraciously. Milton.En-gôrġed', p. a. p. 448Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts. 2. (Med.) Filled with blood to excess; congested.En-gôrġe'ment, n. p. 448The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity. 2. (Med.) An over-fullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. Hoblyn.Engoulée, a. p. 448(Her.) Having the extremity placed in the mouth of an animal;—said of a cross, saltire, and the like.En-grȧff', v. t. p. 448The same as INGRAFT.En-graff'ment, n. p. 448The same as INGRAFTMENT.Ĕn'graft-ā'tion or En-grȧft'ment, n. p. 448The act of ingrafting; ingraftment. [Rare.]En-grȧft', v. t. p. 448See INGRAFT.En-grāil', v. t. p. 448To variegate or spot, as with hail; to indent or make ragged at the edges, as if broken with hail. “A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues.” Chapman. 2. (Her.) To indent with curved lines, as a…En-grāil', v. i. p. 448To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines. Parnell.En-grāil'ment, n. p. 448The ring of dots round the edge of a medal. 2. (Her.) Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary.En-grāin', v. t. p. 449To dye in grain, or in the raw material; to dye deep. “Leaves engrained in lusty green.” Spenser. 2. To incorporate with the grain or texture of any thing; to infuse deeply. The stain hath become…En-grāp'ple, v. t. p. 449To grapple; to seize and hold; to close in and hold fast. [Obs.]En-grāp'ple, v. i. p. 449To grapple or close with another. [Obs.] Daniel.En-grāsp’, v. t. p. 449To seize with a clasping hold; to hold fast by inclosing or embracing; to gripe. Spenser.En-grāve', v. t. p. 449To cut in; to make by incision. [Obs.] Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave. Spenser. 2. To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial…En-grāve', v. t. p. 449To deposit in the grave; to bury; to inter; to inhume. [Obs.] “Their corses to engrave.” Spenser.En-grāve'ment, n. p. 449The act of engraving. 2. Engraved work. [Rare.] Barrow.En-grāv'er, n. p. 449One who engraves; a cutter of letters, figures, or devices, on stone, metal, or wood; a sculptor; a carver.En-grāv'er-y, n. p. 449The trade or work of an engraver. [Rare.] Browne.En-grāv'ing, n. p. 449The act or art of cutting stones, metals, and other hard substances, and representing thereon figures, letters, characters, and devices; especially, the art of producing figures or designs on metal…En-grĭeve', v. t. p. 449To grieve; to pain. [Obs.] Spenser.En-grŏss', v. t. p. 449To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity. [Obs.] “Waves . . . engrossed with mud.” Spenser. This they have engrossed and piled up. Shak. 2. To copy in a large hand…En-grōss'er, n. p. 449One who copies a writing in large, fair characters. 2. One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.En-grōss'ment, n. p. 449The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed, &c.; the engrossment of goods or money. “Engrossments of power and favor.” Swift. 2. That which has been engrossed, as an instrument, and the…En-guärd’, v. t. p. 449To guard; to defend. [Obs.] Shak.En-gūlf’, v. t. p. 449To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf. See INGULF. It quite engulfs all human thought. Young. Syn.—To absorb; swallow up; engross. See ABSORB.En-gūlf'ment, n. p. 449An absorption in a gulf, deep cavern, or vortex. [Rare.]En-hănce', v. t. p. 449To raise or lift up; to exalt; to elevate. [Obs.] He that mekith himself shall be enhanced. Matt. xxiii. 12, Wycliffe's Trans. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser. 2. To add to; to…En-hănçe', v. t. p. 449To be raised up; to swell; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.En-hânce'ment, n. p. 449The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation, as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyment, crime.En-hăn'cer, n. p. 449One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises price, &c.En-hâr'bor, v. t. p. 449To dwell in or inhabit. “Delights enharboring the breasts.” Wm. Browne.En-hârd’en, v. t. p. 449To harden; to embolden. Howell.En'har-môn'ie or En'har-môn'ie-al, a. p. 449(Anc. Mus.) Of, or pertaining to, that one of the three musical scales recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate. 2.…En'har-môn'ie-al-ly, adv. p. 449In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.