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Engine, n.

    1. Machine.
    2. Implement, instrument, weapon, agent, means.

Enginery, n.

    1. Engines, machines, (especially) artillery.
    2. Mechanism, machinery, mechanical contrivances.
    3. Contrivances, schemes, devices, machinations, artifices, system of artifice.

Engird, v. a. Surround, environ, gird, begird, encircle, encompass.

English, n.

    1. English people.
    2. English language.

Engorge, v. a.

    1. Gorge, devour, swallow up, swallow eagerly, gulp down.
    2. (Med.) Fill to excess, stuff, glut, obstruct.

Engorge, v. n. Devour food, feed greedily, be gluttonous.

Engorgement, n.

    1. Fngorging.
    2. (Med.) Congestion, obstruction, plethora, plethoric condition, over-fulness.

Engrain, v. a. [Written also Ingrain.]

    1. Dye in the grain, dye deep.
    2. Incorporate with the grain, lodge in the very fibre.
    3. Grain, paint in imitation of wood.