Be+engaged+upon

  • 1Engaged (play) — Engaged is a three act farcical comedy by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Haymarket Theatre on October 3 1877, the same year as The Sorcerer , one of Gilbert s comic operas written with Arthur Sullivan, which was soon followed by the… …

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  • 2Engaged — 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… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 3Newton-Upon-Ayr —    NEWTON UPON AYR, a burgh, market town, and parish, in the district of Kyle, county of Ayr; containing 4482 inhabitants. This place derives its name from its being of more recent foundation than the county town, and from its position on the… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 4Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — Margaret Cavendish Segment from Frontispiece for several of her books in the 1650s and 1660s …

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  • 5Berwick-Upon-Tweed —    BERWICK UPON TWEED, a port, borough, market town, parish, and county of itself, 55 miles (E. by S.) from Edinburgh, and 334 (N. by W.) from London; containing 8484 inhabitants. The name of this town, which Leland supposes to have been… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 6primarily engaged — Substantially engaged in an enterprise, even though less than one half of one s time or efforts are expended upon it. Federal Reserve System v Agnew, 329 US 441, 91 L Ed 408, 67 S Ct 411 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 7STOKE-UPON-TRENT —    (24), chief seat of the Potteries, in Staffordshire, on the Trent and the Trent and Mersey Canal, 15 m. SE. of Crewe; is of modern growth, with free library, infirmary, public baths, statue to Wedgwood, &c., and is busily engaged in the… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 8have in hand — Be engaged upon …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 9Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …

    Universalium

  • 10Mexico — • Situated at the extreme point of the North American continent, bounded on the north by the United States, on the east by the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, British Honduras, and Guatemala, and on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean… …

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