Chapter Enforceable to English of E by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Engine
(En"gine), v. t.

1. To assault with an engine. [Obs.]

To engine and batter our walls.

T. Adams.

2. To equip with an engine; — said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

3. (Pronounced, in this sense, .) To rack; to torture. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Engineer
(En`gi*neer") n. [OE. enginer: cf. OF. engignier, F. ingénieur. See Engine, n.]

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

2. One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

3. 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.

Engineer
(En`gi*neer") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engineered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Engineering.]

1. To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road. J. Hamilton.

2. To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. [Colloq.]

Engineering
(En`gi*neer"ing), 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.

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 engineeringrelates to machinery, such as steam engines, machine tools, mill work, etc. — Mining engineeringdeals 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.

Engineman
(En"gine*man) n.; pl. Enginemen A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.

Enginer
(En"gin*er) n. [See Engineer.] A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. [Obs.] Shak.

Enginery
(En"gine*ry) n.

1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton.

2. Engines, in general; instruments of war.

Training his devilish enginery.

Milton.