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enfant 152 engreiiage
enfant(s) perdus. ,
engagement, double , (fenc.) two immediately
successive disengages;
prix d' , (mil.) enlistment bounty;
volontaire, (mil.) voluntary enlistment.
(The foregoing translations of fencing terms,
taken from the official Manuel d'escrime of
the French army, differ from those usually
given. Engagement is generally translated
"engage," and is so defined in the Belgian
detrovpe, (Fr. a.) soldier's son (so recognized
with special reference to admission to
the ecoles militaires preparatories, q. v.).
enferme, p. p., shut up, in; closed up;
entre les terres, landlocked.
enfermer, v. a., to shut up, in (as, the enemy
in a town).
enferrer, v. a. r., to run through (one's adversary);
to spit one's self on one's adversary's
blade.
enfilahle, a., (art.) exposed to enfilade fire.
enfilade, f., suite of rooms with doors on same
straight line; (fort.) enfilade, enfilading; (art.,
sm. a.) enfilading fire;
batter ie d' , (art.) enfilade, enfilading, battery;
coup d' , (art.) enfilading shot;
d' , raking;
tir d' (art., sm. a.) enfilade, enfilading,
fire.
enfiler, v. a., to thread, thread on; to pierce, run
through; (mach.) to thread on; (art., (sm. a.)
to enfilade, rake;
le cable, (cord.) to heave in the cable.
enfle, p. p., swollen;
auxjambes, (hipp.) gourdy.
enfler, v. a. n. r., to swell, swell up, rise; to fill (of
a balloon).
enflure, f., swelling.
enfoncage, m., bottoming of casks; (poivd.) packing
of gunpowder in barrels.
enfoncement, m., operation of drivingj driving
in; sinking; depth (as, of a foundation, of a
.well); breaking in (of a door): recess (in a wall,
etc.); hollow (of the ground);
de I'dme, (art.) indentation in the bore.
enfoncer, v. a. n. r., to drive in; to set, fix,
sink; to drive (nails, etc.); to bottom (a
cask); to break, break open; to sink, plunge;
(mil.) to rout, beat; to break through (enemy's
line);
un cane, (mil.) to break up, drive in, a
square;
les eperons, (man.) to spur vigorously;
jusqu'au refus, to drive (a pile) as far as it
will go down;
une porte, to drive in, break in, a door.
enfoncure, f., hollow; hole, depression, (as, in a
road); bottom (of a cask).
enfourcnement, m., (carp.) open mortise joint;
(macA.) fork link;
double (simple), (carp.) an open mortise
joint with a double (single) tenon.
enfourcher, v. a., (man.) to straddle (a horse).
enfourchure, f., fork; crotch (of the body);
etre sur I' , (man.) to have a fork seat.
enfournement, m., operation of setting bread
to bake.
enfourner, v. a., to put into a furnace or oven;
to set bread to bake.
enfreindre, v. a., to infringe, violate.
enfuir, v. r., to leak; to run away.
enfumement, m., state of being full of smoke
(as, a turret, casemate).
enfumer, v., a. r., to fill with Reglement d'escrime.)
engager,
smoke; to
blacken, darken, with smoke (as glass);
(mil.) to smoke out (the defenders of a house,
etc.).
engage, p. p., engaged; (mil.) engaged, in action;
(cord.) fouled, tangled; (art., sm. a.) jammed
(as, a breech mechanism, cartridges in a magazine,
a projectile when it can not be seated by
an ordinary effort).
engage, m., (mil.) soldier enlisted; (Fr. a.)
volunteer ;
conditional d'un an, one-year volunteer;
nouveau , recruit;
d'un an, one-year volunteer;
ivlontaire, volunteer (i. e., person that has
enlisted voluntarily).
engagement, ., engagement, contract; (mil.)
enlistment, enlisting, contract of enlistment;
fight, engagement; (fenc.) disengage,
disengagement ;
d'un an, (mil.) one-year enlistment;
changement d' , (fenc.) a fresh disengage,
made on the opposite side from one previously
made;
v. a. r., to engage; to hire; to entangle;
to insert, be inserted (as a ? handspike);
to slip or fit over, engage in or o er; to
advance, penetrate (into a defile, pass); to
get foul (of an anchor); (mil.) to enlist, be
enlisted; to engage, to come into action, to
begin an action: (cord.) to jam. nip, make last;
(fenc.) to engage;
un bateau, to run a boat upon the sand;
le combat, (mil.) to bring on the action;
I'ennemi, (mil.) to engage, attack, the
enemy;
I'eirier, (man.) to stick, slip, one's foot in
the stirrup;
un soldat, (mil.) to enlist a soldier;
s' -
volontairement, (mil.) to enlist voluntarily.
engalner, v. a., to sheathe, to put up (a
sword).
enganter, v. a., (nav .) to overtake, come up with,
overhaul.
engeance, f., breed (of horses, etc.).
engerbement, m., piling up (as, of powder
barrels, etc.); arrangement of small arms in
tiered racks.
engerber, v. a. to ? pile up, stack up (as, powder
barrels, carriages, etc.).
engiii, m., engine, gear;
s de guerre, (mil.) appliances of war;
de mise ae feu, (artif., etc.) any firing device;
any means of firing a charge, etc. (as,
Bickford fuse, etc.);
de sauvetage, any life-saving device (fire
escape, life belt, etc.).
engorge, p. p., choked, jammed (as, a breech, a
feed, mechanism);
jambes es, (hipp.) swelled legs.
engorgement, m., obstruction; choking, jamming
(as, a breech mechanism, etc.); (hipp.) swelling
in a horse's leg.
engorger, v. a. r., to choke, jam (as, a feed mechanism,
etc.); (artif-.) to prime.
engraissemcnt, m., (carp.) driving a tenon
forcibly into its mortise;
joindre par , to fit, to cause to fit, tightly.
engravement, m., (of small boats, etc.) state
'
of being aground on a sand bank (in a ri er).
engraver, v. a. r., to run aground on a sand bank
(of small boats, etc., in a river).
engrertage, m., (much.) gear, gearing of toothed
wheels; train of wheels; cogwheel; (nav.) stowing,
stowage;
to, , geared;
d'angle. bevel-gear;
conico-nelicoide, skew bevel-gear;
conique, bevel-gear;
& cremaillere, rack and pinion, rack-gear;
cylindrique, spur-gear;
d developpante, involute gear-wheel;
ft developpante de cercle, gear with epicycloidal
teeth;
droit, spur-wheel, spur-gearing;
droit helicoide, skew spur-wheel;
a efiicyclo'ide, epicycloidal gear;
exterieur h fuseaux, external pin-tooth
gearing;
grande roue d' , driving-wheel;
narnais d' s, train of gearing; back -gear;
inter ieur, internal gearing;
interieur h fuseaux, internal pin-tooth
gearing;
intermediate, intermediate gearing;
6ter V , to put, throw, out of gear;
plan, v. cylindrique;
& roues d' angles, v. conique;
& roues coniques, v. conique;
roue d' , brake-wheel;
de roues, gearing;
scrie d' s, change gear;