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Definition of Engines

1. engine [v] - See also: engine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Engines

Literary usage of Engines

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"These différences furnish a reasonable basis for requiring a headlight of a certain kind on engines on main lines on ordinary railroads, and not requiring ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"See Gas and oil engines Gas gangrene. See Gangrene Gas lighting Gc'.s ... Sci Am S 80:42-3 Jl 17 '15 See also Gas and oil engines Gas purification ..."

3. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1891)
"THE application to simple engines of Him's theory, or, more properly, of Him's analysis of the interchange of heat between the steam and the walls of the ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"This ship had two engines of forty horse-power each, to be worked in pairs on the plan ... They were constructed, like the paddle-wheel engines of that day, ..."

5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"These différences furnish a reasonable basis for requiring a headlight of a certain kind on engines on main lines on ordinary railroads, and not requiring ..."

6. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"See Gas and oil engines Gas gangrene. See Gangrene Gas lighting Gc'.s ... Sci Am S 80:42-3 Jl 17 '15 See also Gas and oil engines Gas purification ..."

7. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1891)
"THE application to simple engines of Him's theory, or, more properly, of Him's analysis of the interchange of heat between the steam and the walls of the ..."

8. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"This ship had two engines of forty horse-power each, to be worked in pairs on the plan ... They were constructed, like the paddle-wheel engines of that day, ..."

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