engagement (ān-gaj-mān), n.m., engagement, pledging, pawning; engagement (promise); enlisting; (milit.) bounty; (milit.) action. pl., (com.) liabilities. Entrer dans un —; to enter into an engagement. Manquer à un —; to fail to keep an engagement.
engager, v.a., to pawn, to pledge; to engage, to induce, to invite, to persuade, to urge; (milit.) to enlist; to hire; to bind; (b.s.) to involve; to unite; to compel. — ses meubles; to pledge one’s furniture. Cela ne vous engage à rien; that binds you to nothing. — quelqu’un dans une mauvaise affaire; to entangle any one in a bad business. — le combat; to begin the action. — un soldat; to enlist a soldier. — une clef dans une serrure; to entangle a key in a lock.
s’engager, v.r., to engage one’s self, to be a security, to promise, to take upon one’s self, to undertake, to bind one’s self; to hire one’s self; to enlist; to entangle one’s self, to get involved. S’— pour un ami; to stand security for a friend. S’— dans une mauvaise affaire; to get involved in a bad business. Le combat ne tarda pas à s’—; the battle soon began.
☉engagiste, n.m., tenant (of crown lands).
engaîner, v.a., to sheathe; to case; to put up (of swords).
enganter, v.a., (nav.) to come up with, to overtake, to overreach; to entrap, to cajole, to insnare.
engazonner, v.a., to turf; to cover with turf.
engeance (an-jāns), n.f., breed, brood (animal); (b.s.) race (pers.). Des poules d’une grande —; hens of a large breed. Maudite —; cursed race. Quelle —! what a lot or set!
engeancer, v.a., to embarrass; to saddle (with).
engelure (an-jlur), n.f., chilblain.