Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 31
Engender (v. i.) To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender." -- Massinger.
Engender (n.) One who, or that which, engenders.
Engender (v.) Call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn].
Engender (v.) Make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth].
Engendrure (n.) The act of generation. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Engild (v. t.) To gild; to make splendent.
Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. -- Shak.
Engild (v.) Decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold [syn: gild, begild, engild].
Engine (n.) Note: (Pronounced, in this sense.) Natural capacity; ability; skill. [Obs.]
A man hath sapiences three, Memory, engine, and intellect also. -- Chaucer.
Engine (n.) Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; a machine; an agent. -- Shak.
You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make? -- Bunyan.
Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust. -- Shak.
Engine (n.) Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. "Terrible engines of death." -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Engine (n.) (Mach.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.
Engine driver, One who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive.
Engine lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe.
Engine tool, A machine tool. -- J. Whitworth.
Engine turning (Fine Arts), A method of ornamentation by means of a rose engine.
Note: The term engine 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 steam engine, air engine, electro-magnetic engine; or the purpose on account of which the power is applied, as fire engine, pumping engine, locomotive engine; or some peculiarity of construction or operation, as single-acting or double-acting engine, high-pressure or low-pressure engine, condensing engine, etc.
Engine (v. t.) To assault with an engine. [Obs.]
To engine and batter our walls. -- T. Adams.
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. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Engine (n.) Motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work.
Engine (n.) Something used to achieve a purpose; "an engine of change".
Engine (n.) A wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks [syn: locomotive, engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotive].
Engine (n.) An instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.; "medieval engines of war".
Engine (n.) A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but can't be used without some kind of front end. Today we have, especially, print engine: the guts of a laser printer.
Engine (n.) An analogous piece of software; notionally, one that does a lot of noisy crunching, such as a database engine.
The hacker senses of engine are actually close to its original, pre-Industrial-Revolution sense of a skill, clever device, or instrument (the word is cognate to ?ingenuity?). This sense had not been completely eclipsed by the modern connotation of power-transducing machinery in Charles Babbage's time, which explains why he named the stored-program computer that he designed in 1844 the Analytical Engine.
Engine, () A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but can't be used without some kind of front end.
Today we have, especially, "{print engine": the guts of a laser printer.
Engine, () An analogous piece of software; notionally, one that does a lot of noisy crunching, such as a "database engine", or "{search engine".
The hackish senses of "engine" are actually close to its original, pre-Industrial-Revolution sense of a skill, clever device, or instrument (the word is cognate to "ingenuity").
This sense had not been completely eclipsed by the modern connotation of power-transducing machinery in Charles Babbage's time, which explains why he named the stored-program computer that he designed in 1844 the "{Analytical Engine".
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Engineer (n.) A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering; as, a civil engineer; an electronic engineer; a chemical engineer. 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. [Colloq.]
Civil engineer, () A person skilled in the science of civil engineering.
Military engineer, () One who executes engineering works of a military nature. See under Engineering.
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. -- J. Hamilton.
Engineer (v. t.) To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. [Colloq.] Engineer Corps
Engineer (n.) A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems [syn: engineer, applied scientist, technologist].
Engineer (n.) The operator of a railway locomotive [syn: engineer, locomotive engineer, railroad engineer, engine driver].
Engineer (v.) Design as an engineer; "He engineered the water supply project".
Engineer (v.) Plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery" [syn: mastermind, engineer, direct, organize, organise, orchestrate].
Engineering (n.) Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the properties of matter are made useful to man, whether in structures, machines, chemical substances, or living organisms; the occupation and work of an engineer. In the modern sense, the application of mathematics or systematic knowledge beyond the routine skills of practise, for the design of any complex system which performs useful functions, may be considered as engineering, including such abstract tasks as designing software ({software engineering).
Note: In a comprehensive sense, engineering includes architecture as a mechanical art, in distinction from architecture as a fine art. It was formerly divided into military engineering, which is the art of designing and constructing offensive and defensive works, and civil engineering, in a broad sense, as relating to other kinds of public works, machinery, etc.
Civil engineering, In modern usage, is strictly the art of planning, laying out, and constructing fixed public works, such as railroads, highways, canals, aqueducts, water works, bridges, lighthouses, docks, embankments, breakwaters, dams, tunnels, etc.
Mechanical engineering relates to machinery, such as steam engines, machine tools, mill work, etc.
Mining engineering deals with the excavation and working of mines, and the extraction of metals from their ores, etc.
Engineering is further divided into steam engineering, gas engineering, agricultural engineering, topographical engineering, electrical engineering, etc.
Engineering (n.) The practical application of science to commerce or industry [syn: technology, engineering].
Engineering (n.) The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems; "he had trouble deciding which branch of engineering to study" [syn: engineering, engineering science, applied science, technology].
Engineering (n.) A room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located [syn: engineering, engine room].
Enginemen (n. pl. ) of Engineman
Engineman (n.) A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.
Enginer (n.) A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Enginery (n.) The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. -- Milton.
Enginery (n.) Engines, in general; instruments of war.
Training his devilish enginery. -- Milton.
Enginery (n.) Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. -- Shenstone.
Enginery (n.) Machinery consisting of engines collectively.
Engine-sized (a.) Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. -- Knight.
Enginous (a.) Pertaining to an engine. [Obs.]
That one act gives, like an enginous wheel, Motion to all. -- Decker.
Enginous (a.) Contrived with care; ingenious. [Obs.]
The mark of all enginous drifts. -- B. Jonson.
Engirded (imp. & p. p.) of Engird
Engirt () of Engird
Engirding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engird
Engird (v. t.) To gird; to encompass. -- Shak.
Engirdle (v. t.) To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
Engirt (v. t.) To engird. [R.] -- Collins.
Engiscope (n.) (Opt.) A kind of reflecting microscope. [Obs.]
Englaimed (a.) Clammy. [Obs.]
Engle (n.) A favorite; a paramour; an ingle. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Engle (v. t.) To cajole or coax, as favorite. [Obs.]
I 'll presently go and engle some broker. --B. Jonson.
English (a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
English bond (Arch.) See 1st Bond, n., 8.
English breakfast tea. See Congou.
English horn. (Mus.) See Corno Inglese.
English walnut. (Bot.) See under Walnut.
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.
Note: The English language has been variously divided into periods by different writers. In the division most commonly recognized, the first period dates from about 450 to 1150. This is the period of full inflection, and is called Anglo-Saxon, or, by many recent writers, Old English. The second period dates from about 1150 to 1550 (or, if four periods be recognized, from about 1150 to 1350), and is called Early English, Middle English, or more commonly (as in the usage of this book), Old English. During this period most of the inflections were dropped, and there was a great addition of French words to the language. The third period extends from about 1350 to 1550, and is Middle English. During this period orthography became comparatively fixed. The last period, from about 1550, is called Modern English.
English (n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
Note: The type called English.
English (n.) (Billiards) 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.
The King's English or The Queen's English. See under King.
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.
Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation. -- Milton.
Caxton does not care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing. -- T. L. K. Oliphant.
English (v. t.) (Billiards) 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. [U.S.]
English (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of England or its culture or people; "English history"; "the English landed aristocracy"; "English literature".
English (a.) Of or relating to the English language.
English (n.) An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries[ syn: English, English language].
English (n.) The people of England [syn: English, English people].
English (n.) The discipline that studies the English language and literature.
English (n.) (Sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist [syn: English, side].
English (n.) (Obs.) The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler. The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favorite programming language is at least as readable as English. Usage: mostly by old-time hackers, though recognizable in context. Today the preferred shorthand is simply source.
English (n.) The official name of the database language used by the old Pick Operating System, actually a sort of crufty, brain-damaged SQL with delusions of grandeur. The name permitted marketroids to say ?Yes, and you can program our computers in English!? to ignorant suits without quite running afoul of the truth-in-advertising laws.
English, ()
["Exploring the Pick Operating System", J.E. Sisk et al, Hayden 1986].
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English, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 673
Housing Units (2000): 341
Land area (2000): 3.052318 sq. miles (7.905466 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.052318 sq. miles (7.905466 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21214
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 38.335626 N, 86.460564 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47118
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
English, IN
English
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 (n. pl. ) of Englishman
Englishman (n.) A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
Englishman (n.) A man who is a native or inhabitant of England.
Englishry (n.) The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [Obs.] -- Cowell.
Englishry (n.) A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland.
A general massacre of the Englishry. -- Macaulay.
Englishwomen (n. pl. ) of Englishwoman
Englishwoman (n.) Fem. of Englishman. -- Shak.
Englishwoman (n.) A woman who is a native or inhabitant of England.
Engloom (v. t.) To make gloomy. [R.]
Englue (v. t.) To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued. -- Gower.
Englutted (imp. & p. p.) of Englut
Englutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Englut
Englut (v. t.) To swallow or gulp down. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Englut (v. t.) To glut. [Obs.] "Englutted with vanity." -- Ascham.
Englut (v.) Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out].
Engore (v. t.) To gore; to pierce; to lacerate. [Obs.]
Deadly engored of a great wild boar. -- Spenser.
Engore (v. t.) To make bloody. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Engorged (imp. & p. p.) of Engorge.
Engorging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engorge.
Engorge (v. t.) To gorge; to glut. -- Mir. for Mag.
Engorge (v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. -- Spenser.
Engorge (v. i.) To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food. -- Beaumont.
Engorge (v.) Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out].
Engorged (p. a.) Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.
Engorged (p. a.) (Med.) Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested.
Engorged (a.) Overfull as with blood [syn: congested, engorged].
Engorgement (n.) The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
Engorgement (n.) (Med.) An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. -- Hoblyn.
Engorgement (n.) (Metal.) The clogging of a blast furnace.
Engorgement (n.) Congestion with blood; "engorgement of the breast".
Engorgement (n.) Eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation.
Engouled (a.) (Her.) 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.) (Her.) Same as Engouled.
Engraff (v. t.) To graft; to fix deeply. [Obs.]
Engraffment (n.) See Ingraftment. [Obs.]
Engraft (v. t.) See Ingraft. -- Shak. Engraftatio
Engraft (v.) Cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree" [syn: graft, engraft, ingraft].
Engraft (v.) Fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum" [syn: implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plant].
Engraftation (n.) Alt. of Engraftment.
Engraftment (n.) The act of ingrafting; ingraftment. [R.]
Engrailed (imp. & p. p.) of Engrail.
Engrailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engrail.
Engrail (v. t.) To variegate or spot, as with hail.
A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues. -- Chapman.
Engrail (v. t.) (Her.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.
Engrail (v. i.) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines. -- Parnell.
Engrailed (a.) (Her.) Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.
Engrail (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Engrailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Engrailing.] To variegate or spot, as with hail.
A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues. -- Chapman.
Engrail (v. t.) (Her.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.
Engrailment (n.) The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc. -- Brande & C.
Engrailment (n.) (Her.) 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.
Leaves engrained in lusty green. -- Spenser.
Engrain (v. t.) To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain.
The stain hath become engrained by time. -- Sir W. Scott.
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. [Obs.]
Engrasped (imp. & p. p.) of Engrasp
Engrasping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engrasp
Engrasp (v. t.) To grasp; to grip. [R.] -- Spenser.
Engrave (v. t.) To deposit in the grave; to bury. [Obs.] "Their corses to engrave." -- Spenser.