ENGINEER

I. noun Etymology: Middle English engineour, from Anglo-French, from enginer to devise, construct, from engin Date: 14th century a member of a military group devoted to ~ing work, a crafty schemer ; plotter , 3. a designer or builder of engines, a person who is trained in or follows as a profession a branch of ~ing, a person who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance, a person who runs or supervises an engine or an apparatus, II. transitive verb Date: 1843 to lay out, construct, or manage as an ~ , 2. to contrive or plan out usually with more or less subtle skill and craft , to guide the course of , to modify or produce by genetic ~ing , see: guide