engyn

Middle English

Noun

engyn

  1. engine
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for engyn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Engyn, Middle English, noun - skill, enginuity Quote, Chaucer from Treatise on the Astrolabe - “But consider wel that I ne usurpe not to have founden this werk of my labour or of myn engyn.

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