Engineer

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

II. Engineer ·noun One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.

III. Engineer ·noun A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. ·see under Engineering, ·noun.

IV. Engineer ·vt To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.

V. Engineer ·vt To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to Manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.

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