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Of the nature of impetration; getting, or tending to get, by entreaty. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Containing or expressing entreaty. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence.

Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed. Byron.

A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.

Want of appetency; want of desire.

The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. "Some inherent incompetency." Gladstone.

Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit. Incompetent to perform the duties of the place. Macaulay.

In an competent manner; inadequately; unsuitably.

See Incompatibility.

See Incompatible.

Between the petals of a flower.

Being between petioles. Cf. Intrapetiolar.

Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.…

all decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress. Swift. Lappet moth (Zoöl.), one of several species of bombycid moths, which have stout, hairy caterpillars, flat beneath. Two common American species (Gastropacha Americana, and Tolype velleda) feed upon the apple tree.

Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.

Having long or large petals.

Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.

A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.

A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.