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Quality of being limpid; limpidity.

A limpet. [Obs.] Holland.

In a limping manner.

Limpidity. [Obs.]

A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); -- called also pimploes.

The burnet saxifrage. See under Saxifrage.

Little; petty; pitiful. [Obs.] Crabbe.

a. & n. from Scrimp, v. t. Scrimping bar, a device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise so that it may be smooth for printing. Knight.

In a scrimping manner.

; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating. Watts.

from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties. I. Taylor.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge.

Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets. P. Cyc.

bstance by steeping it in water. -- Aqueous humor (Anat.), one the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin;…

Disbelieving the existence of a God; impious; godless; -- applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer. -- A`the*is"tic*al*ly, adv. -- A`the*is"tic*al*ness, n.

Atheistic; impious. [Obs.] Milton.

A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God. Thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. Acts viii. 23.