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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
engage
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an engaging personality (=pleasant, so that people like you)
▪ He is strikingly handsome with a very engaging personality.
engage first/second etc gear (=put the car into gear)
▪ Nick struggled to engage first gear.
engage in an activityformal (= take part)
▪ Police suspect he may have engaged in criminal activities.
engage in combat with sbformal (= to fight someone)
▪ The President said he was aware of the danger to forces engaged in combat in the field.
engage in warfare
▪ The country did not want to engage in warfare.
engage...in conversation
▪ He was silent, no matter how hard Sofia tried to engage him in conversation.
hire/engage a consultant (=start to employ one)
▪ The company hired an outside consultant to review staffing levels.
hire/engage a lawyer
▪ He’s rich enough to hire a good lawyer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
actively
▪ In order to participate meaningfully within the community members of this group must actively engage in the issues that confront them.
▪ The hum of voices is purpose ful; all are actively engaged.
▪ Barely 7,000 are actively engaged in film-making.
▪ Teachers actively engage in working for progressive education, defending the curriculum they developed and finding ways to expand it.
▪ You can not pretend that is not actively engaged in assaulting her integrity.
▪ Many companies are actively engaged in exports.
▪ Called to actively engage with the outside world.
▪ He was in the midst of his life and actively engaged in it.
in
▪ The news of busy, wanted school libraries can help all of us engaged in providing books and related services to schools.
▪ The news media are increasingly inclined to engage in, or report on, the verbal brawl.
▪ During the next few years children are likely to be engaging in more sustained projects as part of their learning of mathematics.
▪ For now, each branch of the military is studying how to engage in and protect itself against information warfare.
▪ In practice, however, a great many well-established businesses engage in highly successful entrepreneurship.
▪ Why is engaging in a two-way logical conversation so difficult for some children?
▪ Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning: they could not anticipate stability in government programs.
otherwise
▪ The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged.
▪ Government officials are not allowed to raise campaign funds or otherwise engage in partisan political activity.
▪ Fingers subconsciously searching out damage beneath the glossy surface, while he otherwise engages in conversation.
▪ This satisfies him and allows the other adventurers to run and escape automatically while the Champion is otherwise engaged.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ None the less, a person who gives reasons is engaging in a valuable activity.
▪ Were the people you called engaged in illegal activities?
▪ They were expressly forbidden to engage in any other activities, of course.
▪ Similarly, parents instruct their children not to smoke or drink, yet the parents may engage in those activities themselves.
▪ Almost a quarter of the couples had engaged in no activity together with people from outside the household.
▪ The larger working-class and poor population generally finds it necessary to engage in multiple economic activities at the household level.
▪ State-owned television used a film of the episode to accuse conference participants of engaging in decadent activity.
▪ Without a self that others can accept, we could not engage in the activities that maintain us as a society.
attention
▪ He ploughed on, trying to outline his plans for the paper, and engage Sutton's attention.
▪ No Man has more wit, nor can any one engage the attention more than Mr Morris.
▪ It wasn't Friern that was engaging our attention ....
▪ These three examples suggest certain abilities in a new-born that can not fail to engage the attention of new parents.
▪ It was the man who engaged the attention of Blind Hugh, one of the beggars on early duty at Pearl Dock.
▪ Neither of these responses seriously engages our attention on performance.
▪ Aesthetic attention, therefore, consists of engaging the focus of attention in a heightened sustained discrimination.
▪ Blacks troubled him most because the sight of a white worker emptying shit cans engaged their attention.
battle
▪ At least 200 rebels, massed towards Gifunzo in Rutana Province, were engaged in battle.
▪ Our country is engaged in a pitched battle in a fiercely competitive commercial world.
▪ They explain that the patient is engaged in a legal battle with his brother over some land.
▪ Police and demonstrators regularly engage in running battles near Mr Suharto's home in central Jakarta.
▪ Earlier in the day, warriors will engage in mock battle.
▪ Across the table from Kelly, Annie and Bill were engaged in a silent battle of wills.
▪ My feelings and my thoughts were engaged in a battle royal inside me.
business
▪ Accountants, lawyers and other professionals who engage in such business would face enormous fines and up to 10 years' imprisonment.
▪ Her family were townsmen engaged in business.
▪ Guarantees of economic freedoms included explicit recognition of the right of citizens to engage in private business.
▪ QQDling v. Anglish for HANDln, to engage in business or commercial activity.
▪ In the 1960s women could neither engage in business nor launch political careers.
combat
▪ Once engaged in hand-to-hand combat in this way the Squig Hopper is pinioned to the ground and does not move away.
▪ A few people close to their chairs amuse themselves by watching the others engage in mortal combat to secure a seat.
▪ He'd jumped down, engaging in combat with a huge Mameluke.
▪ Higher animals also engage in playful combat and other forms of competitive behaviour.
▪ Helmeted, armed with long, spear-like boards, the surfers looked like gladiators going out to engage in mortal combat.
▪ If the target is engaged in hand-to-hand combat the spell will also affect all troops which are fighting against it.
▪ Infantry, he added, deliberately placed themselves in positions where they would be engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
conversation
▪ In the office, some girls have engaged the secretary in conversation.
▪ They do not engage in conversation, nor do their faces express a desire to.
▪ Lydia felt briefly sorry for her and attempted to engage her in conversation, but it was no good.
▪ Imagine that you could engage in a conversation with the political gladiator, contemporary or historical, who most fascinates you.
▪ Fingers subconsciously searching out damage beneath the glossy surface, while he otherwise engages in conversation.
▪ Through the all-night watches he engaged officers in conversation, asked them questions about world affairs.
▪ He'd got engaged in a conversation with Morag and was taking his time, but who could blame him?
▪ His favorite tactic was to engage in conversation as a way of avoiding work.
debate
▪ Instead, they say industry should engage in the debate to promote the life-saving benefits from testing treatments on animals.
▪ Very few environmentalists would choose to engage in a debate about the extent to which they had either succeeded or sold out.
dialogue
▪ On the analysis offered here, rationality is partly a matter of engaging in a dialogue with others in an appropriate way.
▪ Occasionally the child makes a comment, and the two may engage in brief dialogue.
▪ You refused to engage in a dialogue with it.
▪ Town and country here are engaged in the age-old dialogue between advanced civilizations and primitive cultures.
▪ They 100 engage more in a dialogue that involves planning and equitable exchanges or balances of advantage.
discussion
▪ This should take place at a time when the individual is able to engage in detailed discussion.
▪ At some time, most of us have engaged in a discussion about the possibility of a utopian society.
▪ None the less those who engaged in frequent political discussions became particularly aware of the Conservative Party's stress on defence.
▪ And the president would typically engage them in a discussion of whatever issues they were talking about.
▪ Work-inhibited students enjoy learning and frequently engage in classroom discussions. 8.
form
▪ Duck himself as a thresher in Wiltshire engaged in an ordinary form of agricultural labour.
▪ She would accept students at the margins, but she acknowledged that she was engaging in a form of triage.
▪ Over 90 percent of 3-4 year-olds are engaged in some form of group activity.
▪ Federal law prohibits IRS-approved public charities from engaging in any form of partisan conduct.
▪ Do they conjure up the impression that children are engaged in some form of pre-Victorian drudgery at school?
▪ We could always engage in the Rawlsian form of argument and apply it to the new information once it becomes available.
▪ Partners must not engage in any form of enterprise which is in competition with the partnership.
▪ Both Roeg and Russell could engage with popular cinematic forms in a way that the directors around Anderson could not.
interest
▪ How royal conflicts could engage these various interests is best seen through a detailed investigation of one particular crisis.
▪ But it should be lively enough to engage the interest and the future assistance of better analysts.
▪ It failed to engage my interest.
▪ They keep you talking by asking questions in order to attempt to engage your interest in whatever they are selling.
▪ An artefact from the past can be used to engage interest and awaken curiosity.
▪ There was at first little to engage his political interest, but this changed after Eden's resignation in February 1938.
kind
▪ Nor do fans see themselves as engaging in a kind of working-class resistance to the commercialization of football in any straight forward sense.
▪ Yet some union leadership engaged in a kind of reality denial.
▪ The writer is engaged in a kind of vicarious interaction with a presumed reader and anticipates and provides for likely reactions.
▪ Microsoft recommends it only when the power supply is unreliable or when you are engaged in certain kinds of development work.
▪ Both were engaged in the same kind of activity, in exploring accounts of the world through participation in a conversation.
▪ Besides governments, it is likely that only the largest companies will engage in any kind of record retention and archive management.
opportunity
▪ How can the time and opportunities for children to engage in these tasks be maximized?
▪ Yet we systematically deny these individuals the opportunity to engage in meaningful ways with the adult world.
▪ But the occasional visitor who is wanting more will find that he has a genuine opportunity to engage in worthwhile learning.
▪ It offers an opportunity to engage in group delinquency and, occasionally, in group fights.
practices
▪ They frequented the tavern and engaged in unspecified lewd practices.
▪ Team members might engage in discriminatory practices or hire only friends or relatives.
process
▪ It is concerned with understanding the world and has a set of distinctive methodological devices for engaging in that process.
▪ Since long before Stonewall, gay men have engaged in a process of self-invention.
▪ We accepted the Secretary of State's invitation to engage in the consultation process which he initiated.
▪ When an organization as a whole is engaged in the process of denial, its individual members often follow suit.
▪ Moral entrepreneurs engage in the process of establishing moral rules by attempting to define certain actions or forms of behaviour as deviant.
▪ They are engaged in a process of discovery that is its own reward.
▪ From 1975 to 1979, Mrs Thatcher was engaged in a process not dissimilar from that which Mr Kinnock now presides over.
research
▪ We would have to say, for example, that staff responsible for research students have a definite obligation to engage in research.
▪ At the time of his selection, Foss was working in private industry, engaged in high-altitude research.
▪ Undoubtedly we have further to go in this, and the Institute is engaged in longer-term research into competence-based assessment.
▪ Lecturer Lecturers engage in teaching and research.
▪ All three tutors were engaged in research into various aspects of Language in Education.
▪ They come close to enjoining all scientists to refuse to engage in military research but then back off at the last moment.
▪ This does not imply that all teachers should engage in research.
▪ My father was engaged in research in tropical diseases, and he used to take me around his laboratory in Mill Hill.
struggle
▪ Neo-Classicism was engaged in a struggle for its survival.
▪ It did not engage in the struggle for mass cultural-political hegemony.
▪ When cells fuse, the rival bacteria in each engage in a struggle to the death.
▪ Gary was used to trying to make the rules and then engaging in endless power struggles over them with his son.
student
▪ A Cherokee with an instructor and student on board was engaged in circuits and landings on Runway 22.
▪ Even outstanding teachers have difficulty getting these students to engage in the work of school.
▪ All students should engage in intellectually challenging work and should graduate on the basis of what they know and can do.
▪ We want the student engaged, active, working together.
▪ One teacher recruited three parent helpers to help one fourth-grade student who could not engage in lengthy writing projects.
▪ Indeed, the notion that all students should engage in serious academic work and learn it deeply is a relatively recent phenomenon.
▪ Yet despite a bumpy first year, most students were engaged in productive work.
▪ Glasser stresses that reluctant students engage in the work of school simply because they share a positive relation-ship with their teacher.
study
▪ It was not uncommon for critics at this time to be engaged in character study and reconstructions of plot and chronology.
▪ We intend to persuade the Church to engage in policy studies with the aim of developing people-oriented policies for the communication task.
task
▪ How can the time and opportunities for children to engage in these tasks be maximized?
▪ The children performed these tasks either silently or while engaging in a task designed to suppress their vocalisation of the word names.
▪ Those that remained were engaged on tasks of economic importance.
▪ Having nothing much to do while children are engaged in undemanding tasks that offer little opportunity for the support teacher's intervention.
▪ All carers whatever their titles or financial status are likely to be engaged in tasks of tending with vulnerable elderly people.
▪ There must therefore be another process at work affecting performance, a process which is engaged for certain tasks but not for others.
▪ The part-braided ends of his long hair escaped from the busy fingers which were engaged in their intricate task.
trade
▪ Five are engaged in trade promotion.
▪ If you are engaged in foreign trade, would loans or an overdraft in foreign currency help you?
▪ The booty did not teach the Pisans how to engage in trade, any more than it taught them how to govern.
war
▪ Cities and states oblige them by engaging in bidding wars.
▪ Great Groups are engaged in holy wars.
▪ Catholic morality approves of the view that to repel an aggressor is to engage in a just war.
▪ Different ethnic groups within the country have been engaged in a civil war for more than forty-five years.
▪ He was engaging in a war of nerves with her, Isabel realised at last, but he didn't remember.
▪ The Administration would have neither the men nor the money to engage actively in war.
▪ McKinsey denied it was engaging in a turf war over branding.
▪ In this species the two parents' chloroplasts engage in a war of attrition that destroys 95 percent of them.
work
▪ MacLauchlan never married, lodging in the Lambeth and Clapham areas of London when not engaged on archaeological work.
▪ Even outstanding teachers have difficulty getting these students to engage in the work of school.
▪ They are a group of campesinos who are all engaged in other work.
▪ All students should engage in intellectually challenging work and should graduate on the basis of what they know and can do.
▪ Of the University's total population of about 16,000 students, over 3,500 are engaged in postgraduate work.
▪ Whether they choose to engage in serious intellectual work or not is up to them.
▪ In St Luke's Hospital he would not have been allowed to engage in demanding intellectual work.
▪ Bechtel will manage much of the project but not engage in any construction work.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be otherwise engaged
▪ Duffy, who was otherwise engaged, has been replaced by another actor.
▪ The people in the town who may need a spot of positive thinking more than anybody else will be otherwise engaged.
▪ The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged.
▪ This satisfies him and allows the other adventurers to run and escape automatically while the Champion is otherwise engaged.
otherwise engaged
▪ Oonagh was beautiful, but I was ... otherwise engaged.
▪ The people in the town who may need a spot of positive thinking more than anybody else will be otherwise engaged.
▪ The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged.
▪ They were eating, sleeping, defecating, or otherwise engaged in some momentous enterprise.
▪ This satisfies him and allows the other adventurers to run and escape automatically while the Champion is otherwise engaged.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Paul was engaged as a junior clerk at a very low wage.
▪ She engaged the clutch and put the car into first gear.
▪ She is a storyteller who can engage the children's imagination.
▪ The two armies engaged at dawn.
▪ The vet was increasingly busy and had to engage two new assistants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All students should engage in intellectually challenging work and should graduate on the basis of what they know and can do.
▪ And if you have a deadlock system, don't forget to engage it.
▪ I was engaged in enquiry into the matter when I learnt of the attack upon her sister.
▪ No Man has more wit, nor can any one engage the attention more than Mr Morris.
▪ She didn't appear to beat all like the kind of lady who would be engaging a maid.
▪ Trained to futility by now, we will be ready to engage in further enterprises of a futile nature.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Engage

Engage \En*gage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Engaging.] [F. engager; pref. en- (L. in) + gage pledge, pawn. See Gage.]

  1. To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise. ``I to thee engaged a prince's word.''
    --Shak.

  2. To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.

  3. To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.

    Good nature engages everybody to him.
    --Addison.

  4. To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.

    Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage.
    --Pope.

    Taking upon himself the difficult task of engaging him in conversation.
    --Hawthorne.

  5. To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.

    A favorable opportunity of engaging the enemy.
    --Ludlow.

  6. (Mach.) To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.

Engage

Engage \En*gage"\, v. i.

  1. To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.

    How proper the remedy for the malady, I engage not.
    --Fuller.

  2. To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.

  3. To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.

  4. (Mach.) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
engage

early 15c., "to pledge" (something, as security for payment), from Old French engagier "bind (by promise or oath), pledge; pawn" (12c.), from phrase en gage "under pledge," from en "in" (see en- (1)) + gage "pledge," through Frankish from Proto-Germanic *wadiare "pledge" (see wed). It shows the common evolution of Germanic -w- to central French -g- (see gu-). Meaning "attract and occupy the attention of" is from 1640s; that of "employ, secure for aid, employment or use" is from 1640s, from notion of "binding as by a pledge;" meaning "enter into combat or contest with" is from 1640s. Specific sense of "promise to marry" is 1610s (implied in engaged). Machinery sense is from 1884. Also from the French word are German engagiren, Dutch engageren, Danish engagere.

Wiktionary
engage

vb. 1 (lb en heading transitive) ''To interact socially.'' 2 #To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied. 3 #To draw into conversation. 4 #To attract, to please; (context archaic English) to fascinate or win over (someone). 5 (lb en heading) ''To interact antagonistically.'' 6 #(lb en transitive) To enter into conflict with (an enemy). 7 #(lb en intransitive) To enter into battle. 8 (lb en heading) ''To interact contractually.'' 9 #(lb en transitive) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).

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WordNet
engage

  1. v. carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in; "She pursued many activities"; "They engaged in a discussion" [syn: prosecute, pursue]

  2. engage or engross wholly; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely" [syn: absorb, engross, occupy]

  3. engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?" [syn: hire, employ] [ant: fire]

  4. ask to represent; of legal counsel; "I'm retaining a lawyer"

  5. give to in marriage [syn: betroth, affiance, plight]

  6. get caught; "make sure the gear is engaged" [ant: disengage]

  7. as of wars, battles, or campaigns; "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe" [syn: wage]

  8. as of aid, help, services, or support [syn: enlist]

  9. engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" [syn: lease, rent, hire, charter, take]

  10. keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: mesh, lock, operate] [ant: disengage]

Wikipedia
Engage (album)

Engage is the fourth album by hardcore band Stretch Arm Strong and their third release on Solid State Records

Engagé

Engagé, is an 18th-19th century Modern French term denoting a man, (usually French-Canadian), who is engaged, i.e., employed, with the promise of a steady salary to canoe (or row a boat) and handle all transportation aspects of river and lake-chain travel (maintenance, loading and unloading, propelling, steering, portaging, camp set-up, maps, interaction with Native American people, etc.) in the North American frontier, particularly within the fur trade. It also applied to the men who staffed the pirogues on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Compare with the merchant voyageur and seafaring sailor.

Can also refer to a person socially or politically engaged, especially in the arts and culture.

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Engage (organisation)

Engage is an anti-racist organisation which publishes materials in opposition to antisemitism, primarily in UK academic institutions. The group is made up of left-wing academics who oppose boycotts of Israel.1 The organisation describes its mission as follows: "Engage challenges left and liberal antisemitism in the labour movement, in our universities and in public life more generally. Antisemitism here, manifests itself mainly as anti-Zionism. We are a resource for the monitoring and the critique of left and liberal antisemitism." Engage was originally founded in response to the decision of the Association of University Teachers to participate in an academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

The founders of Engage are David Hirsh, who teaches at Goldsmiths College at the University of London, and Jon Pike, who teaches at the Open University. Hirsh had previously written about left and liberal antisemitism for the Guardian Unlimited blog. Well-known supporters have included the late academic and blogger Norman Geras.

Engage (visual arts)

engage [sic], National Association for Gallery Education, is based in the United Kingdom and promotes the visual arts through gallery education. engage's work helps galleries encourages people to participate in and enjoy the visual arts and become confident users of galleries and museums. engage is the leading international membership association for gallery education working with arts and education professionals. engage has over 1,000 members including gallery educators, teachers and arts professionals from across the UK and in 15 countries.

Professional Development - engage provides opportunities to promote good practice, support diversity and accessibility and helps practitioners develop their careers in gallery education and arts education, including an international annual conference, briefing days and an international summer school.

Communication - Exploring the latest ideas and issues surrounding gallery education through the twice-yearly engage journal and sharing findings from research programmes and projects through publications, including toolkits, briefing notes and research findings.

Support - engage Scotland, engage Cymru and the nine Area Groups in England provide peer support, networking and professional development. engage shares good practice, ideas, jobs and opportunities through its website and publications.

Projects - Working in partnership with members and key organisations, projects encourage gallery education practice which is accessible and diverse. Projects include a range of people from at risk and disadvantaged young people through envision, to deaf and disabled gallery visitors with Explore.

Research - Initiating research programmes with galleries and key partners such as higher education institutions and schools to develop understanding of gallery education and engage with new audiences. enquire is researching how young people learn with artists and contemporary art as part of the Strategic Commissioning Programme for Museum and Gallery Education.

Advocacy - Working to build wider recognition of the value of gallery education with decision makers, to influence policies and resourcing for gallery and arts education. engage is involved in key policy making groups on arts education and the visual arts.

engage is organised as a professional membership organisation, constituted as a company limited by guarantee with charitable registration and is governed by a Board and a Council elected by the membership.

The funding of the organisation comes from various lottery and charitable funds, namely: the Arts Councils of England, Scotland and Wales. engage is runs the enquire programme which is funded by the DCMS and the DCSF as part of the Strategic Commissioning Programme for Museum and Gallery Education.

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Usage examples of "engage".

This is very cheap, and it is a great abridgment of the sacred right of self-government to hang men for engaging in this profitable trade.

They lent acrimony to the impending canvass and increased the mutual hostility of those engaged in the exciting controversy.

Congress States were entitled to enact legislation adapted to the local needs of interstate and foreign commerce, that a pilotage law was of this description, and was, accordingly, constitutionally applicable until Congress acted to the contrary to vessels engaged in the coasting trade.

Such a conception, appearing in a rude state of culture, before the lines between science, religion, and poetry had been sharply drawn, recommending itself alike by its simplicity and by its adaptedness to gratify curiosity and speculation in the formation of a thousand quaint and engaging hypotheses, would seem plausible, would be highly attractive, would very easily secure acceptance as a true doctrine.

The two were ostensibly engaged in checking the mechanical adequacy of the refrigerated vivaria.

United States, might not, without any special authority for that purpose, in the then existing state of things, have empowered the officers commanding the armed vessels of the United States, to seize and send into port for adjudication, American vessels which were forfeited by being engaged in this illicit commerce.

Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb-- one engaged forward and the other aft--the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.

Justice Stone seems to be engaged in an endeavor to erect this into an almost exclusive test of the validity, or invalidity of State taxation affecting interstate commerce.

That is why, if you are guided by me, dear Agaric, you will not engage the Church in this adventure.

There is no question that the world would be better off if Saddam did not have these weapons, but the danger is considerably less than if Saddam were allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, which he believes will deter the United States and Israel and thereby would encourage him to engage in the kind of foreign aggression that would be likely to provoke a nuclear crisis.

Mi efforts to engage, Gie me a maister who can smile When forkin aght mi wage.

If I were the more agile jumper Hovan Du far outclassed me in climbing, with the result that he reached the rail and was clambering over while my eyes were still below the level of the deck, which was, perhaps, a fortunate thing for me since, by chance, I had elected to gain the deck directly at a point where, unknown to me, one of the crew of the ship was engaged with the grappling hooks.

We were either in action or contemplation, or engaged in amorous discourse, the whole time.

He was lying near at hand, overwhelmed with grief and seasickness, and watching and listening with all his might for the amorous encounter he suspected us of engaging in.

Sir Henry Ancred, asks me to write to you in reference to a portrait of himself in the character of Macbeth, for which he would be pleased to engage your services.