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ENGHIEN, a town in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, lying south of Grammont. Pop. (1904) 4541. It is the centre of considerable lace, linen and cotton industries. There is a fine park outside the town belonging to the duke of Arenberg, whose ancestor, Charles ...

ENGINE (Lat. ingenium), a term which in the time of Chaucer had the meaning of " natural talent " or " ability," corresponding to the Latin from which it is derived (cf. " A man hath sapiences thre, Memorie, engin, and intellect also," Second Nun's Tale, 339);

... in Roman architecture. In the temples it is attached to the cella walls, ENGEL— ENGHIEN repeating the columns of the peristyle, and in the theatres and amphitheatres, where they subdivided the arched openings: in all these cases engaged columns are utilized as ...

... til 1802, when it passed to Baden. Louis Antoine Henri de BourbonCondi, duke of Enghien (1772-1804), who had taken refuge here in 1801, was arrested in Ettenheim on the 151(1 of March 1804 and conveyed to Paris, where he was shot on the 2oth of March following ...