Engender
(En*gen"der) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engendered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Engendering.] [F. engender,
L. ingenerare; in + generare to beget. See Generate, and cf. Ingenerate.]
1. To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.]
2. To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth.
Southey. Syn. — To breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call forth; cause; excite; develop.
Engender
(En*gen"der), v. i.
1. To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.
Dryden. 2. To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender." Massinger.
Engender
(En*gen"der) n. One who, or that which, engenders.
Engendrure
(En`gen*drure") n. [OF. engendreure.] The act of generation. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Engild
(En*gild") v. t. To gild; to make splendent.
Fair Helena, who most engilds the night.
Shak. Engine
(En"gine) n. [F. engin skill, machine, engine, L. ingenium natural capacity, invention; in in + the
root of gignere to produce. See Genius, and cf. Ingenious, Gin a snare.]
1. (Pronounced, in this sense, .) Natural capacity; ability; skill. [Obs.]
A man hath sapiences three,
Memory, engine, and intellect also.
Chaucer. 2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent. Shak.
You see the ways the fisherman doth take
To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
Bunyan.
Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust.
Shak. 3. Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.
"Terrible engines of death." Sir W. Raleigh.
4. (Mach.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical
effect.
Engine driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive. — Engine
lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe. — Engine tool, a machine tool. J. Whitworth. — Engine turning
(Fine Arts), a method of ornamentation by means of a rose engine.
The term engine is more commonly applied to massive machines, or to those giving power, or which
produce some difficult result. Engines, as motors, are distinguished according to the source of power,
as steam engine, air engine, electro- magnetic engine; or the purpose on account of which the power
is applied, as fire engine, pumping engine, locomotive engine; or some peculiarity of construction or
operation, as single-acting or double-acting engine, high- pressure or low-pressure engine, condensing
engine, etc.
