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Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous. Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Shak.

drooping country's broken wing. Shak. Who lazily imp their wings with other men's plumes. Fuller. Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled wing. Holmes. Help, ye tart satirists, to imp my rage With all the scorpions that should whip this age. Cleveland.

trick to the same to be matched and impaled with the blessed Virgin in the honor thereof. Fuller.

Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession. -- n.

Not capable of being borne; impassible. A spirit, and so impatible of material fire. Fuller.

o invest with imperial authority, character, or style; to bring to the form of an empire. Fuller.

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

To plunge. Fuller.

ce; consequence; that which is important. [Obs.] Shak. "Careful to conceal importancies." Fuller.

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious. [Obs.] Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important. Chapman.

Full of meaning. [Obs.] Shak.

A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. [R.] Fuller.

Imposture. [Obs.] Fuller.

The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result. Feeble from inanition, inert from weariness. Landor. Repletio…

Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- In"cho*ate*ly, adv. Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. Raleigh.

. South. The very constitution of a multitude is not so inclinable to save as to destroy. Fuller.

Coming in; accruing. A full incoming profit on the product of his labor. Burke.

Unimportant; trifling. [Obs.] "Trifling and inconcerning matters." Fuller.

To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function (Math.), a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished.

Full of increase; abundant in produce. "Increaseful crops." [R.] Shak.