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An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Albugo. ] Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. asparagine. ] (Chem.) A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. biological science applied to the study the relation between workers and their environments.
Syn. -- ergonomics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the application of engineeering principles to solve problems in medicine, such as the design of artificial limbs or organs; -- called also biomedical engineering. [ PJC ]

3. the branch of engineering dealing with the application of biological processes to the solution of practical problems, such as the manufacture of products by fermentation, the production and use of enzymes for various purposes, the use of microorganisms in environmental cleanup, etc.; -- called also biotechnology. [ PJC ]

n. The application of engineeering principles to solve problems in medicine, such as the design of artificial limbs or organs; -- called also bioengineering. [ PJC ]

. (Railroads) A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Bot.) Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Buggy, a. ] The state of being infested with bugs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cartilageneus. ] See Cartilaginous. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being clogged. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (a) In the United States army, the a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rivers and harbors, the construction of lighthouses, etc., and, in time of war, supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field. (b) In the United States navy, a corps made up of the engineers, which was amalgamated with the line by act of March 3, 1899. It consisted of assistant and passed assistant engineers, ranking with ensigns and lieutenants, chief engineers, ranking from lieutenant to captain, and engineer in chief, ranking with commodore and having charge of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The state of being craggy. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or . [ After Dr. Rudolf Diesel, of Munich, the inventor. ] A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the heat generated ignites the fuel (usually a heavy oil), the fuel being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under pressure. The Diesel engine has a very high thermal efficiency. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A man hath sapiences three,
Memory, engine, and intellect also. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; a machine; an agent. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

You see the ways the fisherman doth take
To catch the fish; what engines doth he make? Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. “Terrible engines of death.” Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mach.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To assault with an engine. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To engine and batter our walls. T. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Pronounced, in this sense, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;.) To rack; to torture. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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; as, a civil engineer; an electronic engineer; a chemical engineer. See under Engineering, n. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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). [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Enginemen A man who manages, or waits on, an engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Engineer. ] A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. [ 1913 Webster ]

Training his devilish enginery. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Ferruginous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being foggy. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mach.) A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any internal-combustion engine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ or }. (Mach.) A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually petrol engine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A tropical American tree (Melicocca bijuga) bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp. [ Also spelled genip. ]
Syn. -- Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicoccus bijugatus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. State of being groggy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Man.) Tenderness or stiffness in the foot of a horse, which causes him to move in a hobbling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Imagined p. pr. & vb. n. Imagining. ] [ F. imaginer, L. imaginari, p. p. imaginatus, fr. imago image. See Image. ] 1. To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? Ps. lxii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To represent to one's self; to think; to believe. Shak.

Syn. -- To fancy; conceive; apprehend; think; believe; suppose; opine; deem; plan; scheme; devise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To think; to suppose. [ 1913 Webster ]

My sister is not so defenseless left
As you imagine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. existing in the mind only; not real or actual; as, her imagined fame.
Syn. -- imaginary, notional. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Mach.) Designating, or pertaining to, any engine (called an ) in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder, as by the explosion of a gas, and not in a separate chamber, as in a steam-engine boiler. The gas used may be a fixed gas, or one derived from alcohol, ether, gasoline (petrol), naphtha, oil (petroleum), etc. There are three main classes: (1) gas engines proper, using fixed gases, as coal, blast-furnace, or producer gas; (2) engines using the vapor of a volatile fluid, as the typical gasoline (petrol) engine; (3) oil engines, using either an atomized spray or the vapor (produced by heat) of a comparatively heavy oil, as petroleum or kerosene. In all of these the gas is mixed with a definite amount of air, the charge is composed in the cylinder and is then exploded either by a flame of gas (flame ignition -- now little used), by a hot tube (tube ignition) or the like, by an electric spark (electric ignition, the usual method is gasoline engines, or by the heat of compression, as in the Diesel engine. Gas and oil engines are chiefly of the stationary type. Gasoline engines are largely used for automobile vehicles, boats, etc. Most internal-combustion engines use the Otto (four-stroke) cycle, though many use the two-stroke cycle. They are almost universally trunk engines and single-acting. Because of the intense heat produced by the frequent explosions, the cylinders must be cooled by a water jacket (water-cooled) or by air currents (air cooled) to give the maximum thermodynamic efficiency and to avoid excessive friction or seizing. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The application of computerized data and text manipulation to manage and interpret large bodies of knowledge, or find useful information in large bodies of data. The study of methods for knowledge engineering is generally considered as a branch of artificial intelligence. [ PJC ]

n. [ OF. malengin; L. malus bad, evil + ingenium natural capacity. See Engine. ] Evil machination; guile; deceit. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Mangy. ] The condition or quality of being mangy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a margin. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Bordered with a distinct line of color. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL., dim. of L. margo, marginis, a margin. ] (Zool.) A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an extreme stinginess.
Syn. -- meanness, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The condition or quality of being muggy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction and operation of nuclear reactors. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. An engine using the Otto cycle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Bot.) Pertaining to natural order (Plumbagineæ) of gamopetalous herbs, of which Plumbago is the type. The order includes also the marsh rosemary, the thrift, and a few other genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Proto- + root of Gr. gi`gnesqai to be born: cf. F. protogyne. ] (Min.) A kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose mineral. [ 1913 Webster ]