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That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect. Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. Shak. Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance.

Things which impede or hinder progress; incumbrances; baggage; specif. (Mil.),

Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive. Things so impediental to success. G. H. Lewes.

To impede. [Obs.] Boyle.

A hindering; a hindrance. [Obs.] Baxier.

Causing hindrance; impeding. "Cumbersome, and impeditive of motion." Bp. Hall.

The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures. It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. Paley.

Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly inexpedient to use those ceremonies. Bp. Burnet.

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The infrastapedial part of the columella.

Between peduncles; esp., between the peduncles, or crura, of the cerebrum.

Pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, between the stapes and the mediostapedial. -- n.

Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney- shaped leaf. Gray.

Having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections.

Of a linear shape.

g a raised or rounded edge resembling the lip; -- often used in composition; as, thick-lipped, thin-lipped, etc.

Having lobate toes, as a coot.

Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string.

Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb. The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window. C. Bronté.