enginery (enjinri)

[ war. Not distant far with heavy pace the foe Approaching, gro and huge, in hollow cube Trailing his devilish enginery. Milton, P. L., vi. 553. IMG:content-0490.png:[blocks in formation] With a mighty inward whirring and buzzing of the en ginery which constitutes her [an automaton's] muscular system. O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 129. 3. Any carefully prepared scheme to compa an end, especially a bad end; machinations; devices; system of artifice. The fraudful enginery of Rome. Shenstone , Economy. All his own devilish enginery of lying witne es, partial sheriffs, etc. Macaulay . Such a comprehensive and centralized scheme of national education, if once thoroughly realized, would prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti Christian and atheistic unbelief. 41. Engineering. New Princeton Rev. , II. 134. IMG:content-0491.png:[blocks in formation] engine. It is used for such work as the network of curved lines on a bank-note engraving or a watch-case. See rose - engine.