Index of English words, starting with "en"

(1) - Enfranchise (v. t.) To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words.
(2) - Enfranchise (v. t.) To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.
(3) - Enfranchise (v. t.) To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.

(1) - Enfranchisement (n.) Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.
(2) - Enfranchisement (n.) Releasing from slavery or custody.

(1) - Enfranchiser (n.) One who enfranchises.

(1) - Engage (v. i.) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.
(2) - Engage (v. i.) To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.
(3) - Engage (v. i.) To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.
(4) - Engage (v. i.) To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
(5) - Engage (v. t.) To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.
(6) - Engage (v. t.) To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.
(7) - Engage (v. t.) To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.
(8) - Engage (v. t.) To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.
(9) - Engage (v. t.) To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.
(10) - 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.

(1) - Engaged (a.) Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight.
(2) - Engaged (a.) Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
(3) - Engaged (a.) Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.
(4) - Engaged (a.) Occupied; employed; busy.
(5) - Engaged (imp. & p. p.) of Engage