engine n.
1. (also engine of bliss, ...of seduction) the penis.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Devil is an Ass II i: It creaks his engine. | |
| Wild-Goose-Chase III i: ros.: Bless your manhood: They say ye are a Gentleman of Action, A fare accomplishe’d man; and a rare Engineer. [...] mir.: Yes forsooth; I have a speedy trick: please you to try it: My Engine will dispatch ye instantly. | |
| Wandring Whore I 7: The flame whereof was quickly abated by drawing a codpiece engine, and giving her two or three Coolers. | |
| ‘Dildoides’ in Rochester & Others Works (1739) 185: Which of us able to prevent is His girl from lying with his ’Prentice, / Unless we other means provide / For Nature to be satisfy’d? / And what more proper than this Engine. | |
| ‘Here, Here, Here is Pig and Pork’ in Pepys Ballads (1987) II 315: Untill his Catholick Engine was rais’d, then flat on the Bed, on her Back He laid her, and gave her Instructions, till he made the Cords to crack. | |
| ‘No True Love between Man and Woman’ in Poetical Remaines of Rochester, Etherege, et al. 112: When a Man to a Woman comes creeping and cringing [...] ’Tis Priapus inspires the Talkative Eng’ne. | |
| in Rochester et al. Works 122: ‘Marriage’ To cure the damn’d Lust of your Wife’s Titilation, You may use all the Engines and Pumps in the Nation, As well you may piss out the last Conflagration. | |
| Adam and Eve 48: [Her] craving Lust, ... too fiery to be quench’d by the dilatory Emissions of one single Engine. | |
| in Pills to Purge Melancholy II 130: The Doctor ... That has warm Engines planted, At many a Postern gate. | |
| Elizabeth Wisebourn (1885) 25: But lest she should gain a Degree of Heat that might be dangerous to her, she had a Water Engine continually at hand, which, however, (notwithstanding all her Efforts) she would often Pump dry before she could well allay her Flames. | |
| Dialogue between a Married Lady and a Maid III: He opened the Slit of my Commodity, and conveyed the Head of the Engine to it. | |
| Ænigmatical Repository 11: The engine of mischief, with dug of a cow, / And taylor’s delight, are delicious you know. | |
| ‘Venus School-Mistress’ in Pettit & Spedding 18C British Erotica III (2004) 11: This lecherous scene lasted about ten minutes, the man all the while thrusting his engine as far into her as he could. | |
| Peeping Tom (London) 13 52/2: A gentleman, on whom nature had bestowed so noble an engine of seduction. | |
| ‘Sub-Umbra, or Sport among the She-noodles’ in Pearl 2 Aug. 2: I felt her dear lips again pressing and sucking my engine of love. | |
| Venus in India in Victorian Erotic Tales (1995) 108: Every mad thrust met with a corresponding buck which had the effect of taking my engine into its extreme root! | |
| Adventures of Lady Harpur I 17: He lifted me in his arms, staked on the engine of bliss. | |
| Forbidden Fruit n.p.: His great big engine bursting into me and stretching poor Fanny till she was all torn and bleeding. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Life & Amours I 60: His engine of love had penetrated my slit. |
2. the vagina.
| Bonduca II iv: dec.: For you [...] Whose maw is never crammed, I’ll have an engine— judas: A wench, sweet captain. | |
| Maronides (1678) VI 19: Though they came out of Jove’s own Twist, / Or from a Goddess engine pist. | |
| Psyche Debauch’d Epilogue: She-Weavers [with their] lawless Engines, . . . That like dark Lanthorns lurk in little Room, And manage twenty Shuttles with one Loom. | |
| Beaux’ Strategem III ii: The nymph that with her twice ten-hundred pounds, / With brazen engine hot, and quoif clear-starched, / Can fire the guest in warming of the bed. | |
| York Spy 19: Call a Prostitute as many Proper Names, as she has Hairs upon her Letchery-laying Engine. | |
 | ‘Love-Letters between a Nobleman & Mr. Wilson’ in 18C British Erotica V 8: Direct me how to deceive her, as to the Knowledge she already has got, having made her Engine my Creature. | |
| ‘Gammar Bouncly’ Miscellaneous Works IV 176: By the Water-Engine in her Tail, Conquer’d the Fire of Love or that of Ale. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | ‘A Lady who was twice married, to Hymen’ in Poems (1752) 84: I’ve got an Engine limber like a Clout. | |
| (con. 1916) Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 181: He stripped to the buff [...] and positioned himself at her engine end. |
3. (US drugs) the equipment used by an opium smoker.
| Und. Speaks 36/2: Engine, an opium pipe in use by a smoker. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| et al. DAUL 65/2: Engine, the. The opium pipe and paraphernalia. [Ibid.] 116/2: Kick the engine around. To smoke the opium pipe. | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. | |
| Drug Lang. and Lore. |