Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-GLUT'TING, ppr.

Glutting.

EN-GORE, v.t.

To pierce; to gore. [See Gore.] Spenser.

EN-GORGE, v.i. [engorj'.]

To devour; to feed with eagerness or voracity. Milton.

EN-GORGE, v.t. [engorj'. Fr. engorger, from gorge, the throat.]

To swallow; to devour; to gorge; properly, to swallow with greediness, or in large quantities. Spenser.

EN-GORG'ED, pp.

Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.

EN-GORGE-MENT, n. [engorj'ment.]

The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity.

EN-GORG'ING, ppr.

Swallowing with voracity.

EN-GRAFT', v.t.

To ingraft – which see.

EN-GRAIL, v.t. [Fr. engrêler, from grêle, gresle, hail.]

In heraldry, to variegate; to spot as with hail; to indent or make ragged at the edges, as if broken with hail; to indent in curve lines. Johnson. Chapman. Encyc.

EN-GRAIL-ED, pp.

Variegated; spotted.

EN-GRAIN, v.t. [from grain.]

To dye in grain, or in the raw material; to dye deep.

EN-GRAIN-ED, pp.

Dyed in the grain; as, engrained carpet.

EN-GRAIN-ING, ppr.

Dyeing in the grain.

EN-GRAP'PLE, v.t. [from grapple.]

To grapple; to seize and hold; to close in and hold fast. [See Grapple, which is generally used.]

EN-GRASP', v.t. [from grasp.]

To seize with a clasping hold; to hold fast by inclosing or embracing; to gripe. [See Grasp, which is generally used.]

EN-GRAVE, v.t. [pret. engraved; pp. engraved or engraven. Fr. graver; Sp. grabar; It. graffiare; W. cravu; G. graben; D. graaven; Gr. γραφω. See Grave. Literally, to scratch or scrape. Hence,]

1. To cut, as metals, stones or other hard substances, with a chisel or graver; to cut figures, letters or devices, on stone or metal; to mark by incisions. Thou shalt engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii.
2. To picture or represent by incisions.
3. To imprint; to impress deeply; to infix. Let the laws of God and the principles of morality be engraved on the mind in early years.
4. To bury; to deposit in the grave; to inter; to inhume. [Not now used.] Spenser.

EN-GRAV-ED, or EN-GRAV-EN, pp.

Cut or marked, as with a chisel or graver; imprinted; deeply impressed.

EN-GRAVE-MENT, n.

Engraved work; act of engraving.

EN-GRAV-ER, n.

One who engraves; a cutter of letters, figures or devices, on stone, metal or wood; a sculptor; a carver.

EN-GRAV-ER-Y, n.

The work of an engraver. [Little used.]

EN-GRAV-ING, n.

The act or art of cutting stones, metals, and other hard substances, and representing thereon figures, letters, characters and devices; a branch of sculpture.

EN-GRAV-ING, ppr.

Cutting or marking stones or metals, with a chisel or graver; imprinting.

EN-GRIEVE, v.t.

To grieve; to pain. [See Grieve.] Spenser.

EN-GROSS, v.t. [from gross, or Fr. grossir, engrossir, grossoyer; Sp. engrosar. See Gross.]

1. Primarily, to make thick or gross; to thicken. [Not now used.] Spenser.
2. To make larger; to increase in bulk. [Not used.] Wotton.
3. To seize in the gross; to take the whole; as, worldly cares engross the attention of most men, but neither business nor amusement should engross our whole time.
4. To purchase, with a view to sell again, either the whole or large quantities of commodities in market, for the purpose of making a profit by enhancing the price. Engrossing does not necessarily imply the purchase of the whole of any commodity, but such quantities as to raise the price, by diminishing the supplies in open market, and taking advantage of an increased demand.
5. To copy in a large hand; to write a fair correct copy in large or distinct, legible characters, for preservation or duration; as records of public acts, on paper or parchment.
6. To take or assume in undue quantities or degrees; as, to engross power.

EN-GROSS-ED, pp.

Made thick; taken in the whole; purchased in large quantities for sale; written in large fair characters.