Imp meaning

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To graft (new feathers) onto the wing of a trained falcon or hawk to repair damage or increase flying capacity.
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The definition of an imp is a young demon or a child who misbehaves.

An example of an imp is a very small mythical creature that plays tricks on people.

An example of an imp is a five year old child who hides from their mother in a grocery store.

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Imp is defined as to implant, or add wings or feathers.

An example of imp is attaching feathers to the broken wing of a falcon.

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A mischievous child.
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A small demon.
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A graft.
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To furnish with wings.
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Imperative.
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Imperfect.
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Imperial.
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Imprimatur.
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Import.
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Imported.
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Importer.
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A devil's offspring; young demon.
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A mischievous child.
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A shoot or graft.
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A child; offspring.
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To repair (the wing or tail of a falcon) by grafting on (feathers)
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Imperfect.
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Imperial.
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Impersonal.
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Import.
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Importer.
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Imprimatur.
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To graft new feathers onto the wing of a trained falcon or hawk to repair damage or increase flying capacity.
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(Interface Message Processor) The first router used in the ARPAnet. It was a Honeywell 516 minicomputer with special interfaces and software written by BBN.
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See IMPP and SIMPLE.
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(law) Abbreviation of import.
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(law) Abbreviation of importer.
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(law) Abbreviation of importation.
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Fairfax.

The tender imp was weaned.

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A young or inferior devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful. [from 16th c.]
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A mischievous child. [from 17th c.]
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(archaic) To graft, implant; to set or fix.
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(falconry) To engraft feathers into a bird's wing.

"For, if I imp my wing on Thine" – Herbert (1633)

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To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.
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Origin of imp

Middle English impe scion, sprig, offspring from Old English impa young shoot from impian to graft ultimately from Medieval Latin impotus graft from Greek emphutos grafted from emphuein to implant en- in en–2 phuein to make grow bheuə- in Indo-European roots

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  • Kozlov, Trudy Ekspeditsiy Imp. Russ.

  • Mr Vincent Smith (Imp. Gaz.

  • imp, Lateral median process (same as ALR and PLR of fig.

  • His speeches are lmost the one monument of the struggle on which a lover of english greatness can look back with pride and a sense of wort ness, such as a churchman feels when he reads Bossuet, or an A glican when he turns over the pages of Taylor or of Hooker.: urke's attitude in these high transactions is really more imp essive than Chatham's, because he was far less theatrical than Ch tham; and while he was no less nobly passionate for freedom and j stice, in his passion was fused the most strenuous political argu entation and sterling reason of state.

  • Imp. d.

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