What is "engreatened"

Usage examples of "engreatened".

Would Alder and Dogal and all the soldiers he had diced with get themselves killed in a futile defense?

Jigsaws, cards, roulette counters, poker chips, spillikins, marbles, yarrow stalks, dice, jacks, Trivial Pursuit wedges, bridge score-sheets, discarded Pictionary doodles, Scrabble tiles, bits of unidentifiable plastic and shards of bakelite, wood and metal formed a jumbled compost capable of engaging a dedicated housekeeper for several months of full-time sifting, cataloguing and sorting into the correct boxes.

Maybe it would have been better for all concerned if he had birled the bottle and rattled the dice like the rest.

Memories of warm nights in barracks and the casern, all his old friends, strong young men, laughter and dice, drink and the laughing friendly whores.

There is a pool table in the rear, a pitcher of beer sells for a dollar, and the faded Chicano barmaid rolls dice with the patrons to keep the jukebox going.

Garnishing them with diced tomato and cilantro, he rolled them up in soft tortillas.

At a table in the large, open space through which the staircase made its way, one level below the suite of Sir Bass Foster, Duke of Norfolk, his herald, Sir Ali, one of his noble bodyguards, Don Diego, and his friend and mentor, Baron Melchoro, sat, dicing desultorily, swapping yarnsfor all three had been free-swords and had soldiered in many corners of the known world as well as many pockets of it that were less well knownand sipping at tiny cuplets of a black, thick, bitter decoction that Sir Ali prepared afresh now and then in a long-handled brass pot over the glowing coals of a brazier.

In silence the three dice and the box were placed by Doolan on the bar.

If she tosses a dice to decide whether to euthanize herself and James while in Q-space so as to enfold herself into psychospace -- by far the best way to choose, namely by chance --and if one of her selves does indeed toss the number for death, then one of her will definitely die but will not have lived in vain, and one of the remainder will survive.

If I had to guess, I would say in the nearest tavern, and odds or evens whether he has a dice cup in his hands or a girl on his knee.

He ate by means of his feet, dealt and played cards, and threw dice with the same members, exhibiting such dexterity that finally his companions refused to play with him.

The Gur eased back from his coil, slid his knife away and eyed the dice casually.

I was told afterwards that Voltaire used to play backgammon with him, and when he lost he would throw the dice and the box at his head.

Here were dice tables, a chuck-a-luck game, a keno game and a stud poker game going full blast.

And what do we say in return, back to them, we say, No dice, dirty spicks, lousy kikes, Puerto bastards, black men that want to steal our pure heritage!