These are the meanings of the letters XENAGOGUE when you unscramble them.
- Engage (v. i.)
To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.
- Engage (v. i.)
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.
- Engage (v. i.)
To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.
- Engage (v. i.)
To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
- Engage (v. t.)
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 (v. t.)
To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.
- Engage (v. t.)
To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.
- Engage (v. t.)
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.
- Engage (v. t.)
To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.
- Engage (v. t.)
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.
- Exogen (n.)
A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen.
- Gangue (n.)
The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.