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EN'GELSTEIN, a town of Rrufiia, in the proyince of 
Natangen : forty-eight miles fouth-eaft of Konigiberg. 
ENGELSTET'TEN, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria : twenty-three miles eaft of Vienna. 
EN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Swabia, 
and principality of Stuhlingen : twelve miles north- 
north-eaft of Schaff huufen, and twenty-one north-north- 
weft of Conftance. 
To ENGEN'DER, v.a. [cngcndrer, IT.] To beget be¬ 
tween different fexes;—This baftard love is engendered be¬ 
tween luft and idlenefs. Sidney. —To produce; to form: 
Oh, nature! thou, who of the felf-fame mettle, 
Whereof thy proud child, arrogant man, is pufft, 
Engender'ft the black toad and adder, blue. Shakefpeare. 
To excite; to caufe; to produce.—It unloads the mind, 
engenders thoughts, and animates virtue. Addifon. 
S,\y, can you faft? your ftomachs are too young, 
And abftinence engenders maladies, Sha/ufpeare. 
To bring forth.—Vice engenders fliame, and folly broods 
o’er grief. Prior. 
To ENGE'NDER,. v. n. To be caufed ; to be pro¬ 
duced.—Thick clouds are fpread, and dorms engender 
there. Dry den. 
EN'GENTHAlj,, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia: thirteen miles eaft of Nuremberg. 
EN'GER, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 
phalia, and county of Ravenfberg : three miles weft of 
Hervorden. 
EN'GER SEE, a lake of Carinthina, ten miles nortli- 
north-weft of Feltkirchen. 
EN'GERSTORFF, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria : ten miles fouth-vveft of Zifterfdorf. 
ENGHEEN, or Enghuien, a town of the Netherlands, 
in the county of Hainaut, near which was fought the fa¬ 
mous battle of Steenkirk: eight miles eaft-north-eaft of 
Atb., and thirty north-norfh-eaft of Valenciennes. 
EN'GIA, an ifland near the coaft of the Morea, in a 
gulf to which it gives name; aftciently called Egina, 
Oenone, and Myrmidonia, which laft name it obtained from 
the activity and induftry of the inhabitants, compared to 
ants: about ten leagues in circumference; but rendered 
by rocks nearly inacceftible, except on the north-weft. 
It has no harbours. It has one town which contains 
about eight hundred houfes; and in it are feen the re¬ 
mains of a temple dedicated to Venus, and of another 
dedicated to Jupiter: twenty-five miles louth-fouth-weft 
of Athens. Lai. 37.42. N. Ion. 41.20. E. Ferro. 
EN'GIA, a gulf on the fouth-eaft coaft of European 
Turkey, fo Called from the illand fituated in it, about 
fixty miles in length from north-weft to fouth-eaft, and 
twenty-five wide at the mouth. 
To ENGIL' D, v. a. To illuminate : 
Fair Helena, who mo.re engil’ds the night, 
Then all yon fiery o’s and eyes of light. Shakefpeare. 
E'NGINJD,/. [engin, Fr. ingegno, Ital.]—Any mecha¬ 
nical complication, in which various movements and parts 
concur to one effedb;— In all engines it mu ft be conlidered, 
what weight,every beam is to carry. Adams, —A military 
machine: 
This is our engine , towers that overthrows; 
Our Ipear that hurts, our fword that wounds, our foes. 
Fairfax. 
Any inftrument.—The fword, the arrow, the gun, with 
many terrible engines of death, will be employed. Raleigh. 
He takes the feiflars, and extends 
The little engine- on his fingers’ ends. Pope. 
Any inftrument to throw water upon burning houfes. 
Some cut the pipes, and fome the engines play; 
And fontc, more bold, mount ladders to the fire. Dryd. 
Any means ufed to bring to pafs, or to effect; commonly in 
an ill fenft. —Prayer mu ft be divine and heavenly, which 
E N G 
the devil with all hisen^ztiet fo violently oppofeth. Duppa. 
An agent for another; in contempt: 
They had th’ efpecial engines been, to rear 
His fortunes up into the ftate they were. - Daniel. - 
In Mechanics, this term is applied to wheels, ferews, le¬ 
vers, and all the mechanical powers, combined to Pi ft, eaft, 
or fuftain a weight, or produce any other confiderable 
effect; fome of which are for war, as the baiifta, cata- 
pulta, fcorpio, battering ram, &rc. others for the arts of 
peace, as mills, cranes,, prelfes, clocks, whtches, &c. 
which fee under their refpedtive heads; alfo the articles 
Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Artillery, &c. 
ENG I NE'ER, f. [ engignicr , Fr.] One who manages 
engines ; one who directs the artillery of ail .army. He is 
denominated either a civil or military engineer, according 
as the objedts of his profefiion refpeCt civil or military 
ptirpofes.—An author, who points his fatire only at a great 
man, is like the engineer who fignalized himfelf by this un¬ 
generous practice. Addifon. 
Him thus enrag’d, 
Defcrying from afar, fome engineer, „ ’ 
Dext’rous to guide th’ unerring charge, defign’d, 
By one,nice fliot, to terminate the war. Philips. 
A military engineer fliould be an expert mathematician and 
draughtfman, and particularly verfed in fortification and 
gunnery, being the perfon officially employed to direct 
the operations both for attacking and defending work's. 
It is their bufinefs alfo to draw the lines of cirdumvalla- 
tion and contravallation ; alfo to mark out the trenches, 
places of arms, batteries, and lodgments, and in general 
to direct the workmen in all Inch operations. 
EN'GINERY, f. [from engine,'] The act of managing 
artillery.—They may defcend in mathematics to fortifica¬ 
tion, architecture, enginery, or navigation. Milton. —En¬ 
gines of war; artillery: 
We faw the fee 
Approaching, grols and huge, in hollow cube 
Training his dev’lifti enginery. Milton. 
Machination in general: 
Imbibe the novel daylight, and expofe 
Obvious the fraudful engin’ry of Rome. Shevjlone. 
To ENG'IRD, v. a. [from. gird. ] To encircle; to 
furround ; to environ ; to encompafs. 
My heart is drown’d with grief. 
My body round engirt with mifery ; 
For what’s more milerable than difeontent ? Shakfp. 
To ENGl'RT, v. a. To engird.—That gold muft 
round. engirt thefe brows of mine._ Shakefpeare.—Johnfoii 
lias produced this paflag : for an example of engird. MaJ'on. 
ElN'GISO'MA, f. [from tyyiif, Gr. to approach.J A 
fuigic.il inftrument for making the parts'of the broken 
clavicle meet. Alfo a fraCture of the cranium where the 
botie and the membrane of the brain meet. 
ENG'LAND, or South-Britain, one of the fmalleft, 
though cojifefledly the moft celebrious, of all the coun¬ 
tries of Europe. It is bounded on the north by Scotland, 
on the eaft by the German Ocean, on the foutli by the 
EngHfh Channel, and on the weft by St. George’s Chan¬ 
nel the Atlantic Ocean, Wales, and the Irifii Sea. The 
extent of England, including Wales, reckoned jn fquare 
miles, is computed at 49,450; and the population being 
eftimated at eight millions four hundred t hou land of fouls, 
the number of inhabitants to every fquare mile will be 
one hundred and fixty-nine. The whole illand extends 
from fifty to fifty-eight and a half degrees of north lati¬ 
tude, whence it is about five hundred geographical miles 
in length, divided into two parts, viz. North Britain, 
commonly called Scotland ; and South-Britain, or Eng¬ 
land ; which, from the Land’s End in Cornwall, to the 
North Foreland in Kent, is three hundred and twenty 
geographical miles. In Britifh miles, the whole length 
