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v. t. To sell by auction; to auction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Estates . . . advertised and auctioneered away. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. biological science applied to the study the relation between workers and their environments.
Syn. -- ergonomics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the application of engineeering principles to solve problems in medicine, such as the design of artificial limbs or organs; -- called also biomedical engineering. [ PJC ]

3. the branch of engineering dealing with the application of biological processes to the solution of practical problems, such as the manufacture of products by fermentation, the production and use of enzymes for various purposes, the use of microorganisms in environmental cleanup, etc.; -- called also biotechnology. [ PJC ]

n. The application of engineeering principles to solve problems in medicine, such as the design of artificial limbs or organs; -- called also bioengineering. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. boucanier, fr. boucaner to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins, boucan a smoking place for meat or fish, gridiron for smoking: a word of American origin. ] A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [ Written also bucanier. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Haiti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a buccaneer; piratical. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. canonnier. ] A man who manages, or fires, cannon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A carbineer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. caravanier. ] The leader or driver of the camels in caravan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carabinier. ] (Mil.) A soldier armed with a carbine. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (a) In the United States army, the a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rivers and harbors, the construction of lighthouses, etc., and, in time of war, supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field. (b) In the United States navy, a corps made up of the engineers, which was amalgamated with the line by act of March 3, 1899. It consisted of assistant and passed assistant engineers, ranking with ensigns and lieutenants, chief engineers, ranking from lieutenant to captain, and engineer in chief, ranking with commodore and having charge of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. & t. [ imp. & p. p. Domineered p. pr. & vb. n. Domineering. ] [ F. dominer, L. dominari: cf. OD. domineren to feast luxuriously. See Dominate, v. t. ] To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go to the feast, revel and domineer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His wishes tend abroad to roam,
And hers to domineer at home. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag.

Syn. -- Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See Imperious. -- Dom`i*neer"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Electionered p. pr. & vb. n. Electioneering. ] To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. [ 1913 Webster ]

A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who electioneers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. enginer: cf. OF. engignier, F. ingénieur. See Engine, n. ] 1. A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering; as, a civil engineer; an electronic engineer; a chemical engineer. See under Engineering, n. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Civil engineer, a person skilled in the science of civil engineering. --
Military engineer, one who executes engineering works of a military nature. See under Engineering. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Engineered p. pr. & vb. n. Engineering. ] 1. To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road. J. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the properties of matter are made useful to man, whether in structures, machines, chemical substances, or living organisms; the occupation and work of an engineer. In the modern sense, the application of mathematics or systematic knowledge beyond the routine skills of practise, for the design of any complex system which performs useful functions, may be considered as engineering, including such abstract tasks as designing software (software engineering). [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ In a comprehensive sense, engineering includes architecture as a mechanical art, in distinction from architecture as a fine art. It was formerly divided into military engineering, which is the art of designing and constructing offensive and defensive works, and civil engineering, in a broad sense, as relating to other kinds of public works, machinery, etc. --
Civil engineering, in modern usage, is strictly the art of planning, laying out, and constructing fixed public works, such as railroads, highways, canals, aqueducts, water works, bridges, lighthouses, docks, embankments, breakwaters, dams, tunnels, etc. --
Mechanical engineering relates to machinery, such as steam engines, machine tools, mill work, etc. --
Mining engineering deals with the excavation and working of mines, and the extraction of metals from their ores, etc. Engineering is further divided into steam engineering, gas engineering, agricultural engineering, topographical engineering, electrical engineering, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To run in debt by getting goods made up in a way unsuitable for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit. [ R. ] Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To veneer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An harpooner. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) An Indiaman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The application of computerized data and text manipulation to manage and interpret large bodies of knowledge, or find useful information in large bodies of data. The study of methods for knowledge engineering is generally considered as a branch of artificial intelligence. [ PJC ]

n. [ OF. montanier, LL. montanarius. See Mountain. ] 1. An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rude, fierce person. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person who climbs mountains for sport. [ PJC ]

v. i. To live or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains. [ 1913 Webster ]

You can't go mountaineering in a flat country. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Climbing mountains as a sport. [ PJC ]

n. A dish for keeping muffins hot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Mutiny. ] One guilty of mutiny. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. Nearer. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction and operation of nuclear reactors. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. pionier, orig., a foot soldier, OF. peonier, fr. OF. peon a foot soldier, F. pion. See Pawn in chess. ] 1. (Mil.) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Pioneered p. pr. & vb. n. Pioneering. ] 1. To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to take part in the early development of; to break ground in; to invent or originate. [ PJC ]

a. groundbreaking; originating; -- of efforts that begin work in a field or on a topic not previously widely known. [ PJC ]

In Utah, a legal holiday, July 24, commemorated the arrival, in 1847, of Brigham Young and his followers at the present site of Salt Lake City. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A scrutinizer; specifically, an examiner of votes, as at an election. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sermonizer. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sneered p. pr. & vb. n. Sneering. ] [ OE. sneren, Dan. sn&unr_;rre to snarl or grin (like a dog); cf. Prov. E. sneer to grin, sner to snort, snert to sneer at. See Snore, v. i. ] 1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. [ 1913 Webster ]

I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To show mirth awkwardly. [ R. ] Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To scoff; gibe; jeer. -- Sneer, Scoff, Jeer. The verb to sneer implies to cast contempt indirectly or by covert expressions. To jeer is stronger, and denotes the use of several sarcastic reflections. To scoff is stronger still, implying the use of insolent mockery and derision. [ 1913 Webster ]

And sneers as learnedly as they,
Like females o'er their morning tea. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Midas, exposed to all their jeers,
Had lost his art, and kept his ears. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fop, with learning at defiance,
Scoffs at the pedant and science. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person. Congreve. [ 1913 Webster ]

“A ship of fools, ” he sneered. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat with sneers; to affect or move by sneers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor sneered nor bribed from virtue into shame. Savage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of sneering. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt. “Who can refute a sneer?” Raley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sneers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to sneering. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sneering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Specsioneer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. timonier, fr. timon a helm, fr. L. temo, -onis, a pole. ] A helmsman. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person armed with a truncheon. [ Written also truncheoner. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Veneered p. pr. & vb. n. Veneering. ] [ G. furnieren, fourniren, fr. F. fournir to furnish. See Furnish. ] To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

As a rogue in grain
Veneered with sanctimonious theory. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. furnier or fournier. See Veneer, v. t. ] A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Veneer moth (Zool.), any moth of the genus Chilo; -- so called because the mottled colors resemble those of veneering. [ 1913 Webster ]