IMP
\ˈɪmp], \ˈɪmp], \ˈɪ_m_p]\
Definitions of IMP
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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An offspring; progeny; child; scion.
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A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker.
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To graft; to insert as a scion.
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To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen to equip.
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Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, - as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.
By Oddity Software
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An offspring; progeny; child; scion.
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A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker.
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To graft; to insert as a scion.
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To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen to equip.
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Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, - as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Little devil or wicked spirit.
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(falconry) To mend a broken or defective wing by inserting a feather: to qualify for flight.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A little devil or mischievous sprite; an addition.
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To graft; to extend or repair by something inserted or added; to strengthen.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A scion; a shoot; a child; generally in a bad sense, as an imp of hell; a little devil.
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To graft; to lengthen or extend.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
