Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mental endowment: natural ability; ingenuity: same as
engine , 1. - noun An artful contrivance; a subtle artifice: same as
engine , 2. - noun (in′ jīn). A mechanical contrivance; a machine: same as
engine , 4.
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Examples
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Won was mutilated by a fanbelt frum sleeping in ingine, teh other was hit–he came home but was so damaged that wii hadto “put him down”.
insurance scam kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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We -- you 'n me -- are no more to them selfish creturs in there "-- nodding backwards at the passenger cars --" then the ingine that draws' em.
The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various
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For which ingine and deuise, Perillus thinking to obtaine great reward, was for his labour, by commaundement of the tyraunt, throwen into the
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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"Wal bein as I was anchored here hard an fast, I don't exactly see how I could manage to go through that thar manoeuvre, unless you'd kindly lend me the loan of your steam ingine to do it on."
Lost in the Fog James De Mille
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Irishman -- and bad luck to the man that says I am not that -- can keep a hundhred Germans from comin 'up out av that ingine room.
Cappy Ricks Retires 1918
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D'ye think that little handful av bones, Riggins, can manage the wheel until we've claned up the ingine-room gang?
Cappy Ricks Retires 1918
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Wall, the fust ingine they had on the Punkin Centre wuz a wonderful piece of masheenery.
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It had a five-foot boiler and a seven-foot whissel, and every time they blowed the whissel the durned old ingine would stop.
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Don't tell me it's the ingine he wants to take me on.
John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903
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It's so durned crooked they hav to burn crooked wood in the ingine.
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