Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-GAR'LAND, v.t.

To encircle with a garland. Sidney.

EN-GAR'RI-SON, v.t.

To furnish with a garrison; to defend or protect by a garrison. Bp. Hall.

EN-GAS'TRI-MUTH, n. [Gr. εν, γαστερ and μυθος.]

A ventriloquist. [Not in use.]

EN-GEN'DER, v.i.

To be caused or produced. Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender them. Dryden

EN-GEN'DER, v.t. [Fr. engendrer; Arm. enguehenta; Sp. engendrar; from the L. gener, genero, geno, gigno. See Generate.]

1. To beget between the different sexes; to form in embryo.
2. To produce; to cause to exist; to cause to bring forth Meteors are engendered in the atmosphere; worms are sometimes engendered in the stomach; intemperance engenders fatal maladies; angry words engender strife.

EN-GEN'DER-ED, pp.

Begotten; caused; produced.

EN-GEN'DER-ER, n.

He or that which engenders.

EN-GEN'DER-ING, ppr.

Begetting; causing to be; producing.

EN-GILD', v.t.

To gild; to brighten. Shak.

EN-GINE, n. [Fr. engin; Sp. ingenio; Port. engenho; Arm. ingin; from L. ingenium; so called from contrivance.]

1. In mechanics, a compound machine, or artificial instrument, composed of different parts, and intended to produce some effect by the help of the mechanical powers; as a pump, a windlas, a capstan, a fire engine, a steam engine.
2. A military machine; as a battering ram, &c.
3. Any instrument; that by which any effect is produced. An arrow, a sword, a musket, is an engine of death.
4. A machine for throwing water to extinguish fire.
5. Means; any thing used to effect a purpose.
6. An agent for another; usually in an ill sense.

EN-GI-NEER, n. [Fr. ingenieur.]

1. In the military art, a person skilled in mathematics and mechanics, who forms plans of works for offense or defense, and marks out the ground for fortifications. Engineers are also employed in delineating plans and superintending the construction of other public works, as aqueducts and canals. The latter are called civil engineers.
2. One who manages engines or artillery. Philips.

EN'GINE-MAN, n.

A man who manages the engine, as in steamers and steam-cars.

EN'GINE-RY, n. [en'ginry.]

1. The act of managing engines or artillery. Milton.
2. Engines in general; artillery; instruments of war. Milton.
3. Machination. Shenstone.

EN-GIRD', v.t. [See Gird.]

To surround; to encircle; to encompass. Shak.

EN-GIRD'ED, or EN'GIRT, pp.

Surrounded; encompassed.

EN-GIRD'ING, ppr.

Encircling; surrounding.

EN-GLAD', v.t.

To make glad; to cause to rejoice. Skelton.

EN-GLAIM-ED, a.

Furred; clammy. [Not used.]

EN'GLAND, n. [See ENGLISH.]

EN-GLISH, a. [ing'glish; Sax. Englisc, from Engles, Angles, a tribe of Germans who settled in Britain, and gave it the name of England. The name seems to be derived from eng, ing, a meadow or plain, a level country; Sax. ing; Ice. einge; Dan. eng; Goth. winga; all which seem to be the same word as the Sax. wang, wong, a plain, and to coincide with the G. enge, D. eng, W. ing, strait, narrow, L. ango, from the sense of pressing, depression, laying, which gives the sense of level. The English are the descendants of the Ingævones of Tacitus, De Mor. Germ. 2; this name being composed of ing, a plain, and G. wohnen, D. woonen, to dwell. The Ingævones were inhabitants of the level country.]

Belonging to England, or to its inhabitants.

EN'GLISH, n.

1. The people of England.
2. The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in India, America and other countries.

EN'GLISH, v.t.

To translate into the English language. Bacon.

EN'GLISH-ED, pp.

Rendered into English.

EN'GLISH-RY, n.

The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [Not used.] Cowel.

EN-GLOOM', v.t.

To make gloomy.