Search the Dictionary

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.

g body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.

An Indian crested pheasant of the genus Lophophorus. Several species are known. Called also monaul, monal.

The African sugar cane (Holcus saccharatus), -- resembling the sorghum, or Chinese sugar cane.

A body of Kaffir warriors; a body of native armed men. [South Africa]

Pictured; impressed. [Obs.] Spenser.

To pierce; to penetrate. [Obs.] Drayton.

Not capable of being pierced; impenetrable. [Obs.] Spenser.

The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.

To pledge or pawn. [Obs.] Laing.

The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act or process of grafting or mending. [Archaic]

to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon. The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. Sir I. Newton. But, in the present order of things, not to be employed without impinging on God's justice. Bp. Warburton.

The act of impinging.

Striking against or upon.

To fatten; to make fat. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened. [Obs.]

ligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language. When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. Addison.

See Umpire. [Obs.] Huloet.

Having the qualities, or showing the characteristics, of an imp.