"Method" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

In patent law. "Engine" and "method” mean the same thing, and may be the subject of a patent Method, properly speaking, is only placing several things, or performing several operations, in the most convenient order, but it may signify a con-trivance or device. Fessen. Pat. 127; Horn-blower v. Boulton, 8 Term R. 106

An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing
anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages;
a method of improving the mind.

Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or
classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement
peculiar to an individual.

Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural
objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of
Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnaean method.