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.

Formed by implosion.

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.

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.

The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet. See Impose, v. t., 4.

In an imposing manner.

The quality of being imposing.

The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

The quality of being impossible; impracticability.

An impossibility; as, he tried to do the impossible.

incapability of existing or occurring; impossibility.

Not possibly.

That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country.

Imposthumated.

The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration.

Same as Imposthumate.

One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender.

The condition, character, or practice of an impostor.

A woman who imposes upon or deceives others.