Definition of engage

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Engage (v. t.) To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise..

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Infanticidal :: Infanticidal (a.) Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder..
Photometrician :: Photometrician (n.) One engaged in the scientific measurement of light.
Gage :: Gage (n.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage..
Conflict :: Conflict (v. i.) To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.
Miner :: Miner (n.) One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners..
Busy :: Busy (v. t.) To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books..
Raftsman :: Raftsman (n.) A man engaged in rafting.
Soot :: Soot (n.) A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke..
Preoccupy :: Preoccupy (v. t.) To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice..
Bacchanal :: Bacchanal (a.) Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
Syndicate :: Syndic (n.) An agent of a corporation, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee..
Skirmish :: Skirmish (v. i.) To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.
Turnspit :: Turnspit (n.) One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office..
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent..
Agriologist :: Agriologist (n.) One versed or engaged in agriology.
Engage :: Engage (v. i.) To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle..
Reengage :: Reengage (v. t. & i.) To engage a second time or again.
Pledge :: Pledge (n.) The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn..
Sealer :: Sealer (n.) A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch..
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