engine 
3. An instrumental agent or agency of any 
kind; anything usrd to effect a purpose; an 
instrumentality. 
In the tymc that we ly lie-fun; this town ther may be 
taken a-nother tnwn other In- famyn or IM oih. r 
tor an 8uunc shall we take twcync as "on. 
'Mrrli(K. K. T. 8.), . 256. 
liexterity aiut snlleranee, bravo Dun, 
Are nviinrs the imro politic must work with. 
/'..,-!/, Lady's Trial, il. 1. 
And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giv- 
ing energy to the government, or information to the peo- 
ple. This last in the most certain and the most legiti- 
mate engine of government. 
Je/erson, Correspondence, II. 276. 
An age when the Dutch press was one of the most for- 
midable engines by which the public mind of Europe was 
moved. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 
4. An apparatus for producing some mechani- 
cal effect; especially, a skilful mechanical con- 
trivance: used in a very general way. 
States, as great engine*, move slowly. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 
Specifically (at) A snare, gin, or trap. 
A flssher of the eontrey com to the Lak de Losane with 
hla nettes and his engynes. Merlin (E. E. T. .-.), III. 666. 
Item, Whereas it Is contained in the Statute of West- 
minster the Second, that young salmons shall not be taken 
nor destroyed by nets, nor by engine*, at milldams, from 
the midst of April till the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. 
Statute nflSlh Richard 11., quoted In Walton's 
[Complete Angler, p. 62, note. 
(6) A mechanism, instrument, weapon, or tool by which 
a violent effect is produced, as a musket, cannon, rack, 
catapult, battering-ram, etc. ; specifically, in old use, a 
rack for torture ; by extension, any tool or Instrument : 
us, engines of war or of torture. 
The kyng of kyngges erly vppe he rose, 
And sent for men of craft in all the hast, 
To make engenys after his purpose, 
The wallis to breke, the Cltee for to wast. 
Oenerydei (E. E. T. S.), I. 2887. 
The sword, the arrow, the gun, with many terrible en- 
gines of death, will be well employed. Raleigh, Essays. 
O most small fault, 
How ugly didst thou In Cordelia show ! 
Which, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature 
From the lix'd place. Shak., Lear, i. 4. 
But that two-handed engine at the door 
Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. 
Hilton, Lycidas, 1. 130. 
He takes the gift with reverence, and extends 
The little engine [scissors] on his fingers' ends. 
Pope, K. of the L., 111. 1S2. 
More particularly (c) A skilfully contrived mechanism 
or machine, the parts of which concur In producing an in- 
tended effect ; a machine for applying any of the mechani- 
cal or physical powers to effect a particular purjwse ; es- 
pecially, a self-contained, self-moving mechanism for the 
conversion of energy into useful work : as, a hydraulic en- 
gine for utilizing the pressure of water ; a steam-, gas-, or 
' ' ' the ' ' ' 
hir-entjine, in which the elastic force of steam, gas, or air 
is utilized ; a fire-engine ; stationary or locomotive en- 
iiii> ,<. In popular absolute use, the word generally has 
reference to a locomotive engine. Bee these words. 
In mechanicals, the direction how to frame an instru- 
ment or engine, is not the same with the manner of setting 
it on work. liacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 278. 
Home cut the pipes, and some the engines play, 
And some, more bold, mount ladders to the fire. 
Dryden. 
As the barometric oscillations are due to solar radiation, 
it follows that the earth and sun together constitute a 
thermodynamic engine. 
Thornton and Tail, Nat. Phil., } 830. 
Agricultural, ammoniacal, annular, assistant, at- 
mospheric engine. See the adjective*. - Balance- 
wheel engine. See iialance-icherl. Binary engine. See 
Hilary. Bisulphid-of-carbon engine, an engine using 
the vapor of bisnlphid of carbon as a motive agent. The 
liquid lulls at 110 V.. and at the usual temperature of ex- 
haust steam will give a pressure of sixty-flve pounds to the 
square inch. The vapor in such engines is condensed after 
passing through the cylinder, and returned to the boiler 
to be converted again into vapor ; it can be thus used con- 
tinuously with very little loss. - Caloric engine. See ca- 
loric. Carbonic-acid engine. See rarlmnie. Com- 
pound engine. See tttummtgtot. Compressed-air 
engine. See mm/uvmmi. Concentric engine, a rotat- 
ing engine. Cornish engine. See xi.-.tm ..-/i./i'/ic. Cy- 
cloldal engine, a machine for engraving the wavy or 
curved lines upon the plates from which bank-checks, 
Imnds, etc., are printed. The lines are produced by a 
compound motion given to the graver, or by a combined 
movement of graver and plate. Dental engine, an ap- 
paratus for conveying power to dental surgical instrn 
incuts. Direct-action engine, nn engine in which the 
piston-rod i* directly coupled to the connecting-rod. 
Disk engine, an engine in which motive power is obtain- 
ed by tb" application of steam to the oscillation of a disk. 
Double-acting engine. See tirain-enginr.- Electro- 
dynamic engine, an enu-ine ojierated by an electric cm- 
rent. - Electromagnetic engine, nonelectric machine, 
under elrelric. - Elevator-engine, a special form of st ,-:mi 
hoisting engine that can be controlled from the elevator- 
ear or from any Moor, or made to operate automatically at 
any point of the travel of the car. Empty engine. 'see 
emi'ttt. - Ether-engine, a machine similar totM steam- 
engine, in which the vapor of ether is suhsti tutetl for steam. 
Geared engine, an engine hi"h a. males the driven 
machinery through the intervention of gearing. Half- 
beam engine, a steam engine having a beam so arranged 
as to be moved about a pivot at one end by the action of 
1931 
the engine placed at the other end, the crank being placed 
hem -alii tlie m i< idle of the 1,,-am Hanuonlc engine, an 
electromagnetic engine of small size, invented by Ix 
High-duty engine, an engine designed to work with 
minimum consumption of fuel. Horizontal engine, an 
engine set withthc axes of its steam-cylinders audits cen- 
ter-lines hoii/ontal. Hydraulic engine, see Ai/t/nn//-. 
Hydrocarbon engine, anoth.r name for the petroleum 
engine, or for any oii-and \ :ipor moior. Inclined en- 
gine, an engine of which the line of action is inclined to 
the hoi i/on. internal-combustion engine, an engine 
in which the working cylinder is also the Turnaee. Man 
engine, an apparatus set In mine-shafts, consisting of two 
parallel and vertical rods alternately rising and falling, 
and carrying at suitable intervals platforms, of which a 
pair stop opposite each other at each stroke of the engine. 
In another form one set of platforms is stationary and 
fixed to the walls of the shaft, there being but a single 
oscillating rod. Miners, by stepping back and forth from 
one platform to another at each stroke of the engine, are 
raised to the surface or transported to the bottom of the 
mine. Marine engine. See marine. Mogul engine, 
a locomotive of a peculiar and heavy type, built fornaul- 
lug heavy trains, and having six coupled driving-wheels 
and a single pair of truck-wheels. Non-condensing en- 
gine. See nan-condensing. Non-rotative engine, an 
engine which does not turn a fly-wheel and crank-shut 
Oscillating engine, an engine in which the piston-rod 
is coupled directly to the crank-pin, the steam-cylinder 
oscillating on trunnions to permit the requisite lateral 
movement of the rod. Pendulous or Inverted oscll- 
. 
lating engine, an engine in which the steam-cylinder is 
supported Toy and oscillates about trunnions at the upper 
end, the piston-rod being directly connected to the crank 
below. Rose engine, see ruse-engine. side-lever en- 
gine. Same as marine engine. Stationary engine, any 
form of motor on a lived l>ed, as distinguished from a port- 
able, road, or locomotive engine. Trunk-engine, an en- 
gine in which the connecting-rod is coupled to crank and 
piston, reaching the latter through a large hollow "trunk" 
or rod forming a part of the structure. Twin engine, 
a combination of two engines of the same construction, 
coupled so as to work together. Vertical engine, an 
engine without a beam, set in the vertical ii ne. wildcat 
engine, a locomotive engine that runs without a train : 
so called because it has no regular time. 1 1 '. s. ] 
engine (en'jin), v. t.: pret. and pp. engined, 
ppr. engining. [< ME. enginen, engytien, con- 
trive, deceive, torture, < OF. engignier, engi- 
gner, engenier, engenhier, contrive, invent, de- 
ceive, intrigue, etc., = Pr. enginhar = OSp. en- 
geftar, Sp. ingeniar = Pg. engenhar = It. inge- 
gnare, deceive, dupe, etc., < ML. ingeniare, con- 
trive, attack with engines, dep. ingeniari, in- 
trigue, deceive, < L. ingenium, genius, inven- 
tion, 1.1.. an engine: see engine, /. | If. To 
contrive. 
And now shal Lucifer leue It thowgh hym loth thlnke ; 
For Oygas the geaunt with a gynne engyned 
To breke and to bete doune that ben ageines lesus. 
Pier* Plowman (B), xviii. 260. 
2f. To assault with engines of war. Dairies. 
Infidels, profane and professed enemies to engine and 
batter our walls. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 29. 
3f. To torture by means of an engine ; rack. 
The m) nistrcs of that toun 
Han bent the cartere and so sore him pyned, 
And eek the hostiller so sore engyned, 
That they biknewe Mr wikkednes anoon. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, L 240. 
4. To furnish with an engine or engines : as, 
the vessel was built on the Clyde and engined 
at Greenwich. 
engine-bearer (en'jin-bar'er), n. In ship- 
building, one of the sleepers or pieces of tim- 
ber in a steamer placed between the keelson 
and the boilers of the steam-engine, to form a 
proper seat for the boilers and machinery. 
engine-counter (en'jin-koun'ter), n. A regis- 
tering device for recording or counting the 
movements of engines or machinery ; a speed- 
indicator. See speed-recorder. 
engined (en'jind), a. Same as engine-turned. 
engine-driver (en'jin-dri'ver), n. One who 
drives or manages an engine; especially, one 
who manages a locomotive engine: in the 
United States commonly called engineer. 
engineer (en-ji-ner'), . [Formerly enginer, 
rarely ingener; < OF. engignier = 8p. vngeniero 
= Pg. engenneiro = It. ingegnere, ingegnero, < 
ML. ingentarius, one who makes or uses an en- 
gine, < ingenium, an engine : see engine. Cf . D. 
Q. ingenieur = Dan. Sw. ingenior, < F. ingtfnieur, 
OF. enqigneor, engigneour, one who makes an en- 
gine, ClifLi.*ingeniator,<. ingeniare, contrive: see 
engine, t'.] 1. A person skilled in the principles 
and practice of any department of engineering. 
Engineers are classified, according to the particular busi- 
ness pursued by them, as military, naval or marine, civil, 
ifiinin'i, and mechanical or dtfnatnic engineer*. (See en- 
gineerin;i.) In the United States navy engineer* are class- 
ed as follows : Engineer in chief, ranking with a commo- 
dore and having charge of the Bureau of Steam Engineer 
ing at the Navy IH'partment ; >-hi:'i >'n<tin>-crs, ranking, 
according to length of service, with 'lieutenant command- 
ers, commanders, or captains ; patted assistant engineers, 
ottuers who have passed their examination for chief en- 
gineer, and who rank with lieutenants; and a. 
yineers, who rank with ensigns or lieutenants. 
enginery 
2. An engine-driver; one who manages an en- 
gine; a person who has charge of an engine 
and its connected machinery, as on board a 
steam-vesni'1. 3. One who carries through any 
scheme or enterprise by skill or artful con- 
trivance; a manager.- Chief of engineers, In the 
I mi'-d States army, a high official of the War Department, 
head of the corps of engineers, who has supervisory charge 
of fortifications, torpedo service, military bridges, river 
and harbor improvements, military surveys, etc. Corps 
of engineers. See corpt-'. Fleet engineer, sec ./!<. 
engineer (en-ji-ner'), r. t. [< engineer, n.] 1. 
To plan and direct the formation or carrying 
out of; direct as an engineer: as, to engineer a 
canal or a tunnel. 
Carefully engineered waterways. 
(Jeikie, GeoL Sketches, II. 14. 
2. To work upon ; ply ; try some scheme or plan 
upon. 
Unless we engineered him with question after question, 
we could get nothing out of him. Ops^M 
3. To guide or manage by ingenuity and tact; 
conduct through or over obstacles by contri- 
vance and effort : as, to engineer a bill through 
Congress. 
An exhibition engineered by a native prince is quite a 
novelty even in India. The American, VII. 24. 
engineering (en-ji-ner'ing), n. [Verbal n. of 
engineer, v7] 1. The art of constructing and 
using engines or machines ; the art of execut- 
ing civil or military works which require a spe- 
cial knowledge or use of machinery, or of the 
principles of mechanics. Abbreviated engin. 
2. Careful management ; maneuvering. 
Who kindling a combustion of desire, 
With some cold moral think to quench the Are, 
Though all your engineering proves In vain. 
Coicper, Progress of Error, 1. 321. 
Civil engineering, that branch of engineering which 
relates to the construction or care of roads, bridges, rail- 
roads, canals, aqueducts, harliors, drainage-works, etc. 
Electrical engineering. 8ee electrical.- Hydraulic 
engineering. See hydraulic. Mechanical <>r dynam- 
ic engineering, that branch which relates strictly to 
machinery, such as steam-engines, machine-tools, mill- 
work, etc. Military engineering, that branch which 
relates to the construction and maintenance of fortifica- 
tions, and all buildings necessary in military posts, and 
Includes a thorough knowledge of every point relative to 
the attack and defense of places. The science also em- 
braces the surveying of a country for the various opera- 
tions of war. Mining engineering, that branch which 
relates to all the operations Involved in selecting, testing, 
opening, and working mines. Naval or marine engi- 
neering, that branch which relates to the construction 
and management of engines for the propulsion of steam* 
ships. 
engineership (en-ji-ner'ship), n. (X engineer 
+ -ghijt.] The post of engineer. [Rare.] 
His nephew, David Alan Stevenson, joined with him at 
the time of his death in the engineerthip, is the sixth of the 
family who has held, successively or conjointly, that office. 
R. L. Stevenson, in Contemporary Rev., LI. 790. 
engine-house (en'jin-hous), n. A building for 
the accommodation of an engine or engines. 
Boilers, dynamos, and engine-house must all be arranged 
for that size. Elect. Rev., XXII. 243. 
engine-lathe (en'jin-laVH), n. A large form of 
lathe employed for the principal turning-work 
of a machine-shop. 
engineman (en'jin-man), n.; pi. enginemen 
(-men). A man who manages an engine, as in 
steamers, steam-cars, manufactories, etc. 
engine-plane (en'jin-plan). n. In coal-mining, 
an underground way over which the coal is con- 
veyed by means of an endless chain or rope 
worked by an engine. 
enginert (en'ji-ner), w. [Also ingener; earlier 
form of engineer : see engineer.] 1. An engi- 
neer; one who manages a military engine. 
For 'tis the sport to have the enginer 
Hoist with his own petar. 
Shak., Hamlet, ill. 4 (quartos). 
2. A skilful contriver ; an artful or ingenious 
deviser. 
He is a good enginer that alone can make an instru- 
ment to get preferment Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 1S4. 
There's yet one more, Gabinius, 
The enginer of all. B. Jonson, Catiline, v. 4. 
engine-room (en'jin-r8m), n. The room or 
apartment of a vessel in which the engines are 
placed. 
Where, for example, are the engine-roam logs of any of 
the ships he warms! the Engineer, LXV. 108. 
enginery (en'jin-ri), . [< engine + -ry.] 1. 
The act or art of managing engines or artillery. 
2. Engines collectivelv ; mechanism; ma- 
chinery; especially, artillery; instruments of 
war. 
Xot distant far with heavy pace the foe 
Approaching, gross and huge, in hollow cube 
Trailing his devilish enginery. Milton, V. L., vL 653. 
