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.

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.

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.

Characterized by imposture; deceitful.

Imposture; cheating.

The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.

Done by imposture.

Impostrous; deceitful.

Imposture.

The quality or condition of being impotent; lack of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility.

One who is impotent.

In an impotent manner.

To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of some authority such as police or a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound an illegally parked car; to impound a document for safe keeping.

The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded.

One who impounds.

To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

One who, or that which, impoverishes.

The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.

See Empower.

The state or quality of being impracticable; infeasibility.

Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking.

The state or quality of being impracticable; impracticability.

In an impracticable manner.

Not practical.

To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.

The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.

Of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invoking evil; as, the imprecatory psalms.

Lack of precision.

To impregnate; to make fruitful.

The quality or state of being impregnable; invincibility.

Capable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a plant.

Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.

Impregnated; made prolific.

same as fertilized, 1.

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

Not prejudged; unprejudiced; impartial.

Impregnable.

Lack of preparation.

A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like.

The projector, manager, or conductor, of an opera or concert company.

The quality of being imprescriptible.

Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription; -- of rights.

In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.

A device. See Impresa.

The act of impressing or making.

having the conscious mind deeply or markedly affected or influenced; -- usually used with by or with.

The quality of being impressible; susceptibility.

Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive.

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

The quality of being impressionable.

Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible; as, a bad influence on impressionable youths.

The quality of being impressionable.

The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.

One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism in art; especially, a painter who paints in the impressionistic style; as, the skyrocketing prices of paintings by the French impressionists.