Containing or expressing entreaty.

The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence.

Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent.

A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.

The African sugar cane (Holcus saccharatus), -- resembling the sorghum, or Chinese sugar cane.

A body of Kaffir warriors; a body of native armed men.

Pictured; impressed.

To pierce; to penetrate.

Not capable of being pierced; impenetrable.

The quality of being impious; lack of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.

To pledge or pawn.

The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned.

The act or process of grafting or mending.

To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to clash with; -- with on or upon.

The act of impinging.

Striking against or upon.

To fatten; to make fat.

The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened.

Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language.

See Umpire.

Having the qualities, or showing the characteristics, of an imp; naughtily or annoyingly playful; as, teasing and worrying with impish laughter.

In the manner of an imp.

Pitiless; cruel.

The quality or state of being implacable.

Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince.

The quality of being implacable; implacability.

In an implacable manner.

Without a placenta, as marsupials and monotremes; nonplacental. A mammal having no placenta; a nonplacental mammal.

A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed.

To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth.

The act or process of implanting.

To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.

Lack of plausibility; the quality of being implausible.

Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed.

To pleach; to interweave.

To sue at law.

Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea; rigorous.

One who prosecutes or sues another.

Unpleasing; displeasing.

To pledge.

To accomplish; to fulfill.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical.

The act of filling, or the state of being full.

Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex.

Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution.

Not pliable; inflexible; unyielding.

To infold; to fold together; to interweave.

culpably involved; connected; -- of persons with respect to responsibility for events.

a charge that implicates someone (usually of wrongdoing).

The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.

arousing a mental association; evocative.

Tending to implicate.

By implication.

Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved.

In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence.

State or quality of being implicit.

Implicitness.

Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See Imply.

By implication or inference.

To burst inward; contrasting with explode.

An implosive sound.

The act of imploring; earnest supplication.

One who implores.

Supplicatory; entreating.

Imploration.

One who implores.

That implores; beseeching; entreating.

A bursting inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.

Formed by implosion. An implosive sound, an implodent.

Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless.

To plunge.

In Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium or peristyle to recieve the water from the roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm.

To infold or involve; to wrap up.

To poison; to imbitter; to impair.

A poisoner.

The act of poisoning or impoisoning.

Not according to or in, the direction of the poles.

The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud.

Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude.

Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure.

Impolitic.

In an impolitic manner.

The quality of being impolitic.

The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness.

An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used.

The quality or state of being imponderable.

Imponderable.

To stake; to wager; to pledge.

The eland.

The duykerbok.

To impoverish.

The state or quality of being imporous; lack of porosity; compactness.

Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid.

Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports.

Not to be endured; insupportable; intolerable.

The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.

Importance; significance; consequence; that which is important.

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

appearing to be important; as, an important-looking sealed document.

In an important manner.

The act of carrying, conveying, or delivering.

brought into the country from a foreign source; -- used of especially merchandise; -- correlative of exported.

One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.

Full of meaning.

Void of meaning.

Heavy; insupportable.

The quality of being importunate; importunateness.

Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an importunate petitioner, curiosity.

One who importunes; an importuner.

To require; to demand.

In an importune manner.

One who importunes.

The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity.

Without a port or harbor.

Capable of being imposed or laid on.

Quality of being imposable.

A command; injunction.

p. p. of impose; as, rules imposed by society.

Imposition.

One who imposes.