Engine

1. v. t. (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture.
2. n. (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.
3. n. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
4. n. Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.
5. n. A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.
6. v. t. To assault with an engine.
7. v. t. To equip with an engine; — said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.