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Not capable of being pierced; impenetrable. [Obs.] Spenser.

The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.

Beginning; commencement; incipient state.

Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day. -- In*cip"i*ent*ly, adv.

Want of intelligence; stupidity; folly. [R.] Blount.

An insipient person. [R.] Fryth.

Intercepting; stopping. -- n.

Having equal pressure. Isopiestic lines, lines showing, in a diagram, the relations of temperature and volume, when the elastic force is constant; -- called also isobars.

An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned. Jamieson.

A piece shaped like a knee; as, the kneepieces or ears of a boat.

A game of war, played for practice, on maps. Farrow.

Deceitful; cunning; sly. [Scot.]

A magpie. [Obs.] Shak.

A magpie. [Obs.] Shak.

Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.

Same as Mantel.

y skill; a capital performance; a chef-d'oeuvre; a supreme achievement. The top and masterpiece of art. South. Dissimulation was his masterpiece. Claredon.

A pie made of mince-meat.

s to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; -- called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house.

of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.