enginoust (enjinus)

[ It maketh a man ben enginous And swifte of fote and eke irous. Gower, Conf. Amant., VII. 99. All the Enginous Wheeles of the Soule are continually going. Dekker , Seven Deadly Sins, p. 30. Those beams, by enginous art, made often to mount and spread like a golden and glorious canopy over the deified persons that are placed under it. Middle ton , Triumphs of Integrity. That's the mark of all their enginous drifts, To wound my patience. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 2. engird (en-gėrd'), v . t .; pret. and pp. engirt or engirded , ppr. engirding . [ gird1 .] Το surround; encircle; encompa . My heart is drown'd with grief, Whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes; My body round engirt with misery. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. IMG:content-0492.png:[blocks in formation]