engine bearer (enjinbar"er)

In ship building, one of the sleepers or pieces of timber in a steamer placed between the keelson and the boilers of the steam-engine, to form a proper seat for the boilers and machinery. engine-counter (en'jin-kounter), n. A registering device for recording or counting the movements of engines or machinery; a speed indicator. See speed - recorder. engined (en'jind), a. Same as engine -turned. engine-driver (en'jin-driver), n. One who drives or manages an engine; especially, one who manages a locomotive engine: in the United States commonly called engineer. engineer (en-ji-ner'), п. rarely ingener; ed by the application of steam to the oscillation of a disk. -Double-acting engine. See steam- engine.-Electrodynamic engine, an engine operated by an electric current. - Electromagnetic engine. See electric machine, under electric. Elevator-engine, a special form of steam hoisting-engine that can be controlled from the elevator car or from any floor, or made to operate automatically at any point of the travel of the car. - Empty engine. See empty. Ether-engine, a machine similar to the steam engine, in which the vapor of ether is substituted for steam. - Geared engine, an engine which actuates the driven machinery through the intervention of gearing. - Half be am engine, a steam-engine having a beam so arranged as to be moved about a pivot at one end by the action of ing at the Navy Department; chief according to length of service, with lieutenant-command. ers, commanders, or captains; pa ed a istant engineers, officers who have pa ed their examination for chief engineer, and who rank with lieutenants; and a istant en gineers, who rank with ensigns or lieutenants. upon. Unle we engineered him with question after question, we could get nothing out of him. Cowper . 3. To guide or manage by ingenuity and tact; conduct through or over obstacles by contrivance and effort: as, to engineer a bill through Congre . An exhibition engineered by a native prince is quite a novelty even in India. The American, VII. 24.