The act of pawning, pledging or making liable for debt.

Obligation by agreement or contract. Men are often more ready to make engagements than to fulfil them.

Adherence to a = party or cause; partiality.

Occupation; employment of the attention. Play, by too long or constant engagement, becomes like an employment or profession.

Employment in fighting; the conflict of armies or fleets; battle; a general action; appropriately the conflict of whole armies or fleets, but applied to actions between small squadrons or single ships, rarely to a fight between detachments of land forces.

Obligation; motive; that which engages.