Engine
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Engine
... 4. (n.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a
given physical effect. 5. (vt) To assault with an engine. ...ENGINE. ...
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Throw (135 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or
from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand ...
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Brake (80 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working
a pump, as in a fire engine. 6. (n.) A baker's kneading though. ...
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Lag (1 Occurrence)
... 5. (n.) The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. 6. (n.) The amount of
retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing. ...
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Power (862 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in
action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of ...
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Engines (4 Occurrences)
... 26:9), the use of which was common among the Egyptians and the Assyrians. Such
an engine is mentioned in the reign of David (2 Samuel 20:15). ...
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Trunk (3 Occurrences)
... 11. (n.) A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter
to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and ...
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Receiver (1 Occurrence)
... of Air pump. 7. (n.) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure
cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine. ...
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Duty (90 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured
by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds ...
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Doctor (5 Occurrences)
... an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove
superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
ENGINE

en'-jin (2 Chronicles 26:15 Ezekiel 26:9; APC 1Macc 6:51; 13:43 f).

See SIEGE.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.

2. (n.) Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

3. (n.) Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.

4. (n.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.

5. (v. t.) To assault with an engine.

6. (v. t.) To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

7. (v. t.) (Pronounced, in this sense.) To rack; to torture.

Strong's Hebrew
6904. qebol -- something in front, a military siege engine
... << 6903, 6904. qebol. 6905 >>. something in front, a military siege engine.
Transliteration: qebol Phonetic Spelling: (ko'-bel) Short Definition: rams. ...
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2810. chishshabon -- device, invention
... engine, invention. From chashab; a contrivance, ie Actual (a warlike machine) or
mental (a machination) -- engine, invention. see HEBREW chashab. << 2809, 2810. ...
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