The act of making into paste; that which is formed into a paste or mixture; specifically, a combination of different substances by means of cements.

To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.

The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole.

To place in a pasture; to foster.

Not capable of being borne; impassible.

The quality of being impatient; lack of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.

Impatience.

A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. Impatiens Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.

One who is impatient.

In an impatient manner.

Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession.

To make lord or master; as, to impatronize one's self of a seigniory.

To pave.

Fearless.

To put in pawn; to pledge; to pawn.

Hindrance; impeachment.

That may be impeached; liable to impeachment; chargeable with a crime.

One who impeaches.

The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.

To form into pearls, or into that which resembles pearls.

The quality of being impeccable; exemption from sin, error, or offense.

Not liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong. One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness.

Sinlessness.

Sinless; impeccable.

The state of being impecunious.

Not having money; habitually without money; poor.

The apparent resistance in an electric circuit to the flow of an alternating current, analogous to the actual electrical resistance to a direct current, being the ratio of electromotive force to the current. It is equal to R2 + X2, where R = ohmic resistance, X = reactance. For an inductive circuit, X = 2/fL, where f = frequency and L = self-inductance; for a circuit with capacity X = 1 / 2/fC, where C = capacity.

To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.

Capable of being impeded or hindered.

To impede.

Things which impede or hinder progress; incumbrances; baggage; the supply trains which must accompany an army.

Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive.

To impede.

A hindering; a hindrance.

Causing hindrance; impeding.

To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.

motivated by an irresistable compulsion.

An impelling power or force.

One who, or that which, impels.

To shut up or inclose, as in a pen.

To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten from near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent.

The state of impending; the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon; also, that which impends.

Impending; threatening.

Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening.

Quality of being impenetrable.

Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield.

The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.

In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously.

The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart.

Impenitence.

One who is not penitent.

Without repentance.

Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins. One of the Impennes.

An order of birds, including only the penguins, in which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight.

Having no wings, as some insects.

To people; to give a population to.

Commanding.

Done by express direction; not involuntary; commanded.

Of or pertaining to the imperative mood.

The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.

A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried with it some special privileges. After the downfall of the Republic it was assumed by Augustus and his successors, and came to have the meaning now attached to the word emperor.

Commanding; imperative; authoritative.

Imperial.

Imperative.

Imperceptible.

Not perceived.

The state or quality of being imperceptible.

Not perceptible; not to be apprehended or cognized by the senses; not discernible by the mind; not easily apprehended.

Lack of perception.

Unable to perceive.

Not perceiving, or not able to perceive.

The state or quality of being imperdible.

Not destructible.

To make imperfect.

The state or quality of being imperfectible.

Incapable of being made perfect.

The quality or condition of being imperfect; lack of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.

The state of being imperfect.

Incapable of being perforated, or bored through.

A division of Foraminifera, including those in which the shell is not porous.

Not perforated; having no opening or aperture.

The state of being without perforation.

Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict.

The power or character of an emperor; imperial authority; the spirit of empire.

One who serves an emperor; one who favors imperialism.

Of, pertaining to, or advocating imperialism.

To invest with imperial authority, character, or style; to bring to the form of an empire.

Imperial power.

To bring into peril; to endanger.

The act of imperiling, or the state of being imperiled.

Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic.

In an imperious manner.

The quality or state of being imperious; arrogance; haughtiness.

The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility.

Not perishable; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring permanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown.

Supreme power; absolute dominion; empire.

Wearing a periwig.

Lack of permanence.

Not permanent.

The quality of being impermeable.

Not permeable; not permitting passage, as of a fluid. through its substance; impervious; impenetrable; as, India rubber is impermeable to water and to air.

Not permissible.

Not capable of being searched out; inscrutable.

Not persevering; fickle; thoughtless.

That which wants personality; an impersonal verb.

The quality of being impersonal; want or absence of personality.

In an impersonal manner.

To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.

One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.

The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.

Lack of perspicuity or clearness; vagueness; ambiguity.

Not perspicuous; not clear; obscure; vague; ambiguous.

Not to be persuaded; obstinate; unyielding; impersuasible.

Not persuasible; not to be moved by persuasion; inflexible; impersuadable.

The condition or quality of being impertinent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.

Impertinence.

An impertinent person.

In an impertinent manner.

The quality or state of being impertransible.

Incapable of being passed through.