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Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective. Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created. Milton. Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault; Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.…

That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. Genius must have talent as its complement and implement. Coleridge.

The act of filling, or the state of being full. Sir T. Browne.

d under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. Johnson.

icles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.

The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective. A most imperfect and incomplete divine. Milton.

ndorse in blank, to write one's name on the back of a note or bill, leaving a blank to be filled by the holder.

The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.

ance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. Addison. Calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities. Kirwan. Fatty infiltration. (Med.) See under Fatty. -- Infiltration gallery, a filter gallery.

Infinite extent; unlimited space; immensity; infinity. "I am who fill infinitude." Milton. As pleasing to the fancy, as speculations of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding. Addison.

To expand; to fill; to distend.

Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas.

To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract. If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding.

The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.

A sort of fillet worn by dignitaries, priests, and others among the ancient Romans. It was generally white.

To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; -- followed by with. Infuse his breast with magnanimity. Shak. Infusing him with self and vain conceit. Shak.

To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid or other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels.

The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance.

matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and local news.