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of war, and is provided with a dock-yard, and all the (lores 
- and materials necefl'ary for repairing and careening veflels. 
EN'GLISH ISLANDS, l’mall iflands fituate on the 
fouth point of Englifh Creek, near the fouth-eaft part of 
the ifland of Martinico, in the Weft Indies. 
EN'GLISH MERCURY. See Chenopodium. 
EN'GLISH POINT, a cape in the river St. Lawrence, 
on the coaft of Canada. Lat. 49. 40. N. Ion. 61.45. W. 
Greenwich. 
EN'GLISH REACH, a reach in the Straits of Magel¬ 
lan, about three leagues over, between Cape Gallant and 
Cape Holland. 
EN'GLISH ROAD, a road in the ifland of Eooa, or 
Middleburgh, in the South Pacific Ocean, with twenty- 
five fathoms water. Lat. ai. 20. S. Ion. 174. 34. W. 
Greenwich. 
EN'GLISH-TOWN, a town of the American States, 
inNewJerfey: fix miles north.eaft of Philadelphia, and, 
eighteen eaft of Prince-town. 
ENGLOTTOG AS'TOR, J. [from tv, yharln, Gr. the 
tongue, and yar'/jf, the belly.] One who fpeaks from his 
b.elly; a ventriloquift. 
EN'GLST AIN, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auftria: fix miles north-weft of Zwetl. 
To ENGLU'T, v. a. \_engloutir, Fr.] To fwallow up. 
It is now little ujed: 
How many prodigal bits have Haves and peafants 
This night engluttcd! Shakejpeare. 
To fill; to glut; to pamper.—Being once cnglutted with 
vanity, he will ftraightway loath all learning. AJ'cham. 
To ENGLU'TE, v. a. [from gluten , Lat. glue.] To 
glue or faften together. 
ENGOMPHO'SIS, J. [from tv, and yoptpoq, Gr. a nail.] 
In anatomy that fpecies of articulation which refembles 
a nail driven into wood, as a tooth in its focket. 
ENGO'NASIS, J. \_tyyovu.a\c, Gr. a bowing of the 
knee.] In aftronomy, the fame as Hercules, one of the 
northern conftellations, fo called from the figure of Her¬ 
cules bearing upon his right knee, and endeavouring to 
bruife a dragon’s head with his left foot. See Hercules. 
To ENGO'RE, v. a. To pierce; to prick. Not ujed : 
As favage bull, whom two fierce maftiffs bait, 
When rancour doth with rage him once engors, 
Forgets with wary ward them to await, 
But with his dreadful horns them drives afore. Spenjer. 
To ENGO'RGE, v. a. [from gorge, Fr. a throat.] To 
fwallow ; to devour ; to gorge : 
That is the gulf of greedinefs, they fay, 
That deep engorgeth all this world’s prey. Spenjer. 
To ENGO'RGE, v. n. To devour; to feed with eager- 
nefs and voracity; to riot: 
Greedily fhe engorg’d without reftraint, 
And knew not eating death ! Milton. 
To ENGR A'lL, v. a. [from grcle, Fr. hail.] To va¬ 
riegate ; to fpot as with hail. A word now ufed only in 
heraldry, for to indent in curve lines. 
To ENGRA'IN, v. a. To die deep; to die in grain .* 
See thou how frefli my flowers being fpread, 
Dyed in lilie white and crimfon red, 
With leaves engrain’d in lufty green. Spenjer. 
To ENGRAP'PLE, v.a. To clofe with; to contend 
with hold on each other: 
There (hall young Hotfpur, with a fury led, 
Engrapple with thy fon, as fierce as he. Daniel. 
To ENGRASP'; v. a. To feize ; to hold faft in tire 
hand; to gripe: 
Now ’gan Pyrocles wax as wood as he, 
And him affronted with impatient might; 
And both together fierce engrafped be, 
Whiles Guyon Handing by, their uncouth ftrife doth fee. 
Spenjer. 
yOL. VI. No. 393. 
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To ENGRA'VE, v. a. preter. engraved ; part. paff. en¬ 
graved or engraven ; [engraver, Fr.] To p id til re by inci- 
lions in any matter: 
O’er all, the heav’n’s refulgent image fhines; 
On either gate were fix engraven figns. Addifon. 
To mark wood or Hone.— Engrave the two Hones with 
the names. Ex. xxviii. 11.—To imprefs deeply; to im¬ 
print.— It will fcarce feem poffible, that God fhoiild en¬ 
grave principles, in men’s minds, in words of uncertain 
lignification. Locke. 
Sounds which addrefs the ear, are loft and die 
In one fliort hour ; but that which (hikes the eye, 
Lives long upon the mind : the faithful fight 
Engraves the knowledge with a beam of light. Watts. 
[from grave. ] To bury; to inhume ; to inter : 
The fon had charge of them, now being dead. 
In feemly fort their corfes to engrave , 
And deck with dainty flowers their bridal bed. Spenjer. 
ENGR A'VER, J. A cutter in ftone or other matter. 
It is univerfally applied to thofe artifts who engtave cop¬ 
per-plates for. books and prints, &c.—Images are not 
made in the brain itfelf, as the pencil of a painter or en¬ 
graver makes the images in the table, but are imprinted 
in a wonderful method in the foul. Hale. 
ENGRAVING, /. The art of forming any device, 
figure, picture, ornament, or writing, by (inking or cut¬ 
ting the fame on metal, wood, ftone, glafs, &c. whereby 
prints or impreftions may be taken, and multiplied at 
pleafure. It is, ftriCtly fpeaking, a branch of fculpture. 
Among the elegant arts engraving copper-plates has at 
length arrived at fuch a degree of perfection, and contri¬ 
butes fo much to the rational amufement of cultivated 
life, that eminent engravers have the faired claim to be 
honourably recorded in the faithful page of biography. 
This reward, not unfrequently the only one obtained by 
genius, ought fo much the rather to be beftowed, as it 
frequently operates as an encouragement to the young ar- 
tift, and infpires him with that glow of ambition, without 
which no mafterpiece was ever accomplifhed. Indeed, 
when the anxious (Indent fees with how much veneration 
great artifts and their productions are mentioned, the im¬ 
portance of the art will necelfarily rife in his opinion. 
When he conliders with what perfeverance the mod emi¬ 
nent engravers have toiled till they arrived at the fummit 
of the art; and that the mod fatiguing labour, the mod; 
formidable obftacles, and the mod deprefling poverty, 
have operated only as a ftimulus to employ every expe¬ 
dient for obtaining their great end : thel’e reflections will 
not fail to roufe and ftimulate him, and induce him to 
take advantage of every hour in the day, and devote 
every minute of his time to exertion! In the fame man¬ 
ner, the infttances of adverfe fortune, under which more 
than one great mafter have laboured, may ferve as whole- 
fome advice to-him, and (hew how eflential it is to add 
morality and prudence to genius and talents, in order fo 
procure folid happinefs by the fuccefsful praClice of fo 
honourable a profeflion. And, let it be remembered by 
thofe who, not much to the credit of their difeernment, 
affeCt to rail at virtuofi, that nothing is better calculated 
to form our tafte than the ftudy of good engravings. 
They pleafingly introduce us to the fine arts, and pave 
the way for a knowledge of pictures; if examined atten¬ 
tively, they foon teach the beholder to difeover the pecu¬ 
liar manner of each particular mafter and fchoot ; and 
they give 11s an idea, and put us, as it were, in pofleflion 
of an infinite number of paintings, ‘which we could not 
have acquired without the aid of immenfe films of money. 
Befides thefe effeCts, which are general, every one may 
derive from this branch of the arts individual advantages, 
according to the extent of his tafte, attainments, and in¬ 
clination. Every perfon, of whatfoevec profeflion, may 
deduce great benefit and inftruCtion from engravings; 
which, ever fince their invention, have been copied and 
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