Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 31

Engender (v. i.) To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.

Engender (n.) One who, or that which, engenders.

Engendrure (n.) The act of generation.

Engild (v. t.) To gild; to make splendent.

Engine (n.) (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.

Engine (n.) Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

Engine (n.) Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.

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

Engine (v. t.) To assault with an engine.

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

Engine (v. t.) (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture.

Engineer (n.) A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.

Engineer (n.) One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

Engineer (n.) One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.

Engineered (imp. & p. p.) of Engineer

Engineering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engineer

Engineer (v. t.) To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.

Engineer (v. t.) To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.

Engineering (n.) 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.

Enginemen (pl. ) of Engineman

Engineman (n.) A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.

Enginer (n.) A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.

Enginery (n.) The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.

Enginery (n.) Engines, in general; instruments of war.

Enginery (n.) Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.

Engine-sized (a.) Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper.

Enginous (a.) Pertaining to an engine.

Enginous (a.) Contrived with care; ingenious.

Engirded (imp. & p. p.) of Engird

Engirt () of Engird

Engirding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engird

Engird (v. t.) To gird; to encompass.

Engirdle (v. t.) To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.

Engirt (v. t.) To engird.

Engiscope (n.) A kind of reflecting microscope.

Englaimed (a.) Clammy.

Engle (n.) A favorite; a paramour; an ingle.

Engle (v. t.) To cajole or coax, as favorite.

English (a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.

English (a.) See 1st Bond, n., 8.

English (n.) Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.

English (n.) The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.

English (n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.

English (n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.

Englished (imp. & p. p.) of English

Englishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of English

English (v. t.) To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.

English (v. t.) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion.

Englishable (a.) Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.

Englishism (n.) A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English.

Englishism (n.) A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.

Englishmen (pl. ) of Englishman

Englishman (n.) A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.

Englishry (n.) The state or privilege of being an Englishman.

Englishry (n.) A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland.

Englishwomen (pl. ) of Englishwoman

Englishwoman (n.) Fem. of Englishman.

Engloom (v. t.) To make gloomy.

Englue (v. t.) To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued.

Englutted (imp. & p. p.) of Englut

Englutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Englut

Englut (v. t.) To swallow or gulp down.

Englut (v. t.) To glut.

Engore (v. t.) To gore; to pierce; to lacerate.

Engore (v. t.) To make bloody.

Engorged (imp. & p. p.) of Engorge

Engorging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engorge

Engorge (v. t.) To gorge; to glut.

Engorge (v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.

Engorge (v. i.) To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.

Engorged (p. a.) Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.

Engorged (p. a.) Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested.

Engorgement (n.) The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

Engorgement (n.) An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion.

Engorgement (n.) The clogging of a blast furnace.

Engouled (a.) Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled.

Engoulee (a.) Same as Engouled.

Engraff (v. t.) To graft; to fix deeply.

Engraffment (n.) See Ingraftment.

Engraft (v. t.) See Ingraft.

Engraftation (n.) Alt. of Engraftment

Engraftment (n.) The act of ingrafting; ingraftment.

Engrailed (imp. & p. p.) of Engrail

Engrailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engrail

Engrail (v. t.) To variegate or spot, as with hail.

Engrail (v. t.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.

Engrail (v. i.) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

Engrailed (a.) Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.

Engrailment (n.) The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc.

Engrailment (n.) Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary.

Engrained (imp. & p. p.) of Engrain

Engraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engrain

Engrain (v. t.) To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain.

Engrain (v. t.) To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain.

Engrain (v. t.) To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.

Engrapple (v. t. & i.) To grapple.

Engrasped (imp. & p. p.) of Engrasp

Engrasping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engrasp

Engrasp (v. t.) To grasp; to grip.

Engrave (v. t.) To deposit in the grave; to bury.

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