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.
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.
Engineered(imp. & p. p.) of Engineer
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.
Engineering(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engineer
Enginer(n.) A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.
Enginous(a.) Pertaining to an engine.
Enginous(a.) Contrived with care; ingenious.
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