Part 3782

<h1>Engender</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En*gen"der</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, engenders.</def>

<h1>Engendrure</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En`gen*drure"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>engendreure</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of generation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Engild</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En*gild"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To gild; to make splendent.</def>

<blockquote>Fair Helena, who most <b>engilds</b> the night. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Engine</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En"gine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>engin</ets> skill, machine, engine, L. <ets>ingenium</ets> natural capacity, invention; <ets>in</ets> in + the root of <ets>gignere</ets> to produce. See <er>Genius</er>, and cf. <er>Ingenious</er>, <er>Gin</er> a snare.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>(Pronounced, in this sense, <?/<?/<?/<?/.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A man hath sapiences three, Memory, <b>engine</b>, and intellect also. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what <b>engines</b> doth he make? <i>Bunyan.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these <b>engines</b> of lust. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.</def> "Terrible <i>engines</i> of death."

<i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.</def>

<cs><col>Engine driver</col>, <cd>one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive.</cd> -- <col>Engine lathe</col>. <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Lathe</er>.</cd> -- <col>Engine tool</col>, <cd>a machine tool. <i>J. Whitworth</i>.</cd> -- <col>Engine turning</col> <fld>(Fine Arts)</fld>, <cd>a method of ornamentation by means of a rose engine.</cd></cs>

<note>&hand; The term <i>engine</i> 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 <i>steam engine</i>, <i>air engine</i>, <i>electro-magnetic engine</i>; or the purpose on account of which the power is applied, as <i>fire engine</i>, <i>pumping engine</i>, <i>locomotive engine</i>; or some peculiarity of construction or operation, as <i>single-acting</i> or <i>double-acting engine</i>, <i>high-pressure</i> or <i>low-pressure engine</i>, <i>condensing engine</i>, etc.</note>

<h1>Engine</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En"gine</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To assault with an engine.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>To <b>engine</b> and batter our walls. <i>T. Adams.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; <as>as, vessels are often built by one firm and <ex>engined</ex> by another</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>(Pronounced, in this sense, <?/<?/<?/<?/<?/.) To rack; to torture.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>