In hot engagement with the Moors.
Dryden.
5. (Mach.) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.
Syn. -- Vocation; business; employment; occupation; promise; stipulation; betrothal; word; battle; combat; fight; contest; conflict. See Battle.
En*ga"ger (?), n. One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.
Several sufficient citizens were engagers.
Wood.
En*ga"ging (?), a. Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. - - En*ga"ging*ness, n.
Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought into gear or out of gear with another part, as occasion may require.
En*gal"lant (?), v. t. To make a gallant of. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
En*gaol" (?), v. t. [Pref. en- + gaol: cf. OF. engaoler, engeoler. See Gaol, and cf. Enjail.] To put in jail; to imprison. [Obs.] Shak.
En*gar"boil (?), v. t. [Pref. en- + garboil.] To throw into disorder; to disturb. [Obs.] "To engarboil the church." Bp. Montagu.
En*gar"land (?), v. t. [Pref. en- + garland: cf. F. enguirlander.] To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney.
En*gar"ri*son (?), v. t. To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison. Bp. Hall.
En*gas"tri*muth (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; in + &?; belly + &?; to speak: cf. F. engastrimythe.] An ventriloquist. [Obs.]
En*gen"der (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engendered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Engendering.] [F. engender, L. ingenerare; in + generare to beget. See Generate, and cf. Ingenerate.] 1. To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.]
2. To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth.
Southey.
Syn. -- To breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call forth; cause; excite; develop.
En*gen"der, v. i. 1. To 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, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender." Massinger.
En*gen"der (?), n. One who, or that which, engenders.
En`gen*drure" (?), n. [OF. engendreure.] The act of generation. [Obs.] Chaucer.
En*gild" (?), v. t. To gild; to make splendent.
Fair Helena, who most engilds the night.
Shak.
En"gine (?), n. [F. engin skill, machine, engine, L. ingenium natural capacity, invention; in in + the root of gignere to produce. See Genius, and cf. Ingenious, Gin a snare.] 1. (Pronounced, in this sense, &?;&?;&?;&?;.) Natural capacity; ability; skill. [Obs.]
A man hath sapiences three,
Memory, engine, and intellect also.
Chaucer.