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Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass.

roved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.

the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames. God save all this fair company. Chaucer. He cried, saying, Lord, save me. Matt. xiv. 30. Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from utter loss. Milton.…

Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

nt. Massinger. Shadow of death, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death. Ps. xxiii. 4.

Impenetrable by shot.

Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.

o exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death. Milton. The skies look grimly And threaten present blusters. Shak.

hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage. Where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad. Milton.

The state of being unconverted; impenitence. [R.]

Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.

Impenetrable.

Impenitent. Sandys.

Impenitence. [R.]

One of the Australian wattle trees (Acacia colletioides), so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes.

dison. Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity. Locke.