The act of enfeoffing. The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.

To fester.

To bind in fetters; to enchain.

To excite fever in.

To make fierce.

To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops.

Having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be /enfiled of/ the thing which it pierces.

To set on fire.

To clothe with flesh.

A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers. It is used for plants whose volatile oils are too delicate to be separated by distillation.

To cover or deck with flowers.

To infold. See Infold.

The act of infolding. See Infoldment.

Force; strength; power.

Capable of being enforced.

Compelled; forced; not voluntary.

The act of enforcing; compulsion.

One who enforces.

That may be enforced.

Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.

To turn into a forest.

To form; to fashion.

Mixed with, or emitting, lightning.

To inclose, as in a frame.

To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.

endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote.

Releasing from slavery or custody.

One who enfranchises.

To set free.

To set free.

To freeze; to congeal.

To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable.

To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.

Occupied; employed; busy.

With attachment; with interest; earnestly.

The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.

The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.

One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.

Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address.

To make a gallant of.

To put in jail; to imprison.

To throw into disorder; to disturb.

To encircle with a garland, or with garlands.

To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison.

An ventriloquist.

One who, or that which, engenders.

The act of generation.

To gild; to make splendent.

To assault with an engine.

Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper.

To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.

Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the properties of matter are made useful to man, whether in structures, machines, chemical substances, or living organisms; the occupation and work of an engineer. In the modern sense, the application of mathematics or systematic knowledge beyond the routine skills of practise, for the design of any complex system which performs useful functions, may be considered as engineering, including such abstract tasks as designing software (software engineering).

A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.

A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.

The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.

Pertaining to an engine.

To gird; to encompass.

To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.

To engird.

A kind of reflecting microscope.

To cajole or coax, as favorite.

To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.

able to communicate in English.

a South African bulbous wood sorrel (Oxalis cernua) with showy yellow flowers.

Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.

A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English.

A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.

The state or privilege of being an Englishman.

Fem. of Englishman.

To make gloomy.

To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued.

To swallow or gulp down.

To gore; to pierce; to lacerate.

To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.

Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.

The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled.

Same as Engouled.

To graft; to fix deeply.

See Ingraftment.

See Ingraft.

The act of ingrafting; ingraftment.

To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.

The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc.

To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain.

To grapple.

To grasp; to grip.

To cut in; to make by incision.

Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.

Engraving.

One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

The trade or work of an engraver.

The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.

To aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on.

To grieve.

To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.

capable of holding the attention completely; very interesting.

The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed.

To surround as with a guard.

To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.

A swallowing up as if in a gulf.

To surround with a halo.

To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

improved. Contrasted with unenhanced.

The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

To find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit.

To harden; to embolden.

In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.

To give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden.

To surround as with a hedge.

To encourage.

To make hungry.

A variety of chalcedony containing water.

Having water within; containing fluid drops; -- said of certain crystals.

A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed.

Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; not clear to the understanding; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer; I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatical comment until much later; prophetic texts so enigmatical that their meaning has been disputed for centuries.

Darkly; obscurely.