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Imp [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A son; offspring; progeny.

2. The tender imp was weaned.

3. A lad of life, an imp of fame.

4. A subaltern or puny devil.

Imp [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To graft.

2. To lengthen; to extend or enlarge by something inserted or added; a term originally used by falconers, who repair a hawk's wing by adding feathers.

3. IMP out our drooping country's broken wings.

4. --The false north displays

5. Her broken league to imp her serpent wings.

6. This verb is, I believe, used only in poetry.

Imp [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.

2. An offspring; progeny; child; scion.

3. A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker.

4. 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.

5. To graft; to insert as a scion.

6. 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.

Imp-pole [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A pole for supporting a scaffold.

Impacable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Not to be appeased or quieted.

Impacable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Not to be appeased or quieted.

Impackment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being closely surrounded, crowded, or pressed, as by ice.

Impact [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Touch; impression.

Impact [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To drive close; to press or drive firmly together.

Impact [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.

2. The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.

Impact [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

Impacted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Driven hard; made close by driving.

Impacted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Driven together or close.

Impacted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Impacting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Impaction [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

2. An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.

Impaint [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To paint; to adorn with colors.

Impaint [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To paint; to adorn with colors.

Impair [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In crystallography, when a different number of faces is presented by the prism, and by each summit; but the three numbers follow no law of progression.

2. IMPA'IR

Impair [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To be lessened or worn out. [Little used.]

Impair [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value or excellence. An estate is impaired by extravagance or neglect. The profligate impairs his estate and his reputation.

2. Imprudence impairs a man's usefulness.

3. To weaken; to enfeeble. The constitution is impaired by intemperance, by infirmity and by age. The force of evidence may be impaired by the suspicion of interest in the witness.

Impair [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Not fit or appropriate.

Impair [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Diminution; injury.

Impair [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.

2. To grow worse; to deteriorate.

Impaired [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Diminished; injured; weakened.

Impaired [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Impairer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

He or that which impairs.

Impairer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, impairs.

Impairing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Making worse; lessening; injuring; enfeebling.

Impairing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Impairment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Diminution; decrease; injury. [Not used.]

Impairment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being impaired; injury.

Impalatable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Unpalatable. [Little used.]

Impalatable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Unpalatable.

Impale [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To fix on a stake; to put to death by fixing on an upright sharp stake. [ See Empale .]

2. To inclose with stakes, posts or palisades.

3. In heraldry, to join two coats of arms pale-wise.

Impale [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale.

2. To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround.

3. To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention.

Impaled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Impalement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled.

2. An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed.

3. That which hedges in; inclosure.

4. The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.

Impaling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Impalla [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The pallah deer of South Africa.

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Genesis 4:22

And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Genesis 40:3

And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.

Genesis 42:17

And he put them all together into ward three days.

So Joseph imprisoned them for three days,

Exodus 1:14

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Leviticus 7:18

And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.

If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 11:32

And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.

When one of them dies and falls on something, that article becomes unclean; any article of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work must be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean.

Leviticus 16:16

And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

So he shall make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the impurities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting which abides among them, because it is surrounded by their impurities.

Leviticus 17:4

And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

instead of bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before His tabernacle—that man shall incur bloodguilt. He has shed blood and must be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 20:21

And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.

Leviticus 25:25

If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

Numbers 5:13

And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;

by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),

Numbers 21:4

And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey

Joshua 22:10

And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.

And when they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan.

Judges 6:6

And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.

1 Samuel 22:15

Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.

Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew nothing of this whole affair—not in part or in whole.”

2 Samuel 13:2

And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.

Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.

2 Samuel 19:19

And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

1 Kings 9:15

And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

1 Kings 9:28

And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.

1 Kings 10:28

And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.