Engages meaning

Whatever the obligations of the state towards the ecclesiastical society may be in pure theory, in practice they become more precise and stable when they assume the nature of a bilateral convention by which the state engages itself with regard to a third party.

The signal coil is suspended by fibres and is mounted together with a fixed soft iron core on a brass plate affixed to a rack, with which a pinion operated by a milled head screw engages.

The ink-box is made adjustable, being carried by an arm attached to a pillar provided with a rack with which a pinion operated by a milled head screw engages.

Agriculture engages the greater part of the resident population, both male and female; other industries, except the fisheries, are little developed.

Fruit farming engages attention, about 8000 morgen being devoted to orchards in 1904.