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Neat; fit; comfortable. [Obs.]

A pen or sty for hogs.

imp. & p. p. of Help. [Obs.] Shak.

To shut up or inclose, as in a pen. Feltham.

To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent. Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends. Pope.

The state of impending; also, that which impends. "Impendence of volcanic cloud." Ruskin.

Impending; threatening. Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. Milton.

Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope.

Quality of being impenetrable.

Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield. Highest woods impenetrable To star or sunlight. Milton.

The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.

In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously. "Impenetrably armed." Milton. "Impenetrably dull." Pope.

The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart. He will advance from one degree of wickedness and impenitence to another. Rogers.

Impenitence. Milton.

Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart. "They . . . died impenitent." Milton. "A careless and impenitent heart." Bp. Hall.

Without repentance.

Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins. -- n.

An order of birds, including only the penguins, in which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight.

Having no wings, as some insects.

The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope.…