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Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.

Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.

Faulty or imperfect nutrition.

The smallest of the three orders of Fungi Imperfecti, including those with no asci nor pycnidia, but as a rule having the spores in cavities without special walls. They cause many of the plant diseases known as anthracnose.

ccasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.

An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.

To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. A mingled, imperfect virtue. Rogers.

To reform wrongly or imperfectly.

To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.

To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having eyes like those of the mole; having imperfect sight.

The largest of the three orders into which the Fungi Imperfecti are divided, including various forms.

To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. Peace, you mumbling fool. Shak. A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself. Otway.…

To talk imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly; to chatter unintelligibly.

To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. Addison. Mutilated gear, Mutilated wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs…

Mutilated; defective; imperfect. [Obs.]

To utter with imperfect articulations, or with a low voice; as, to mutter threats. Shak.

Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.

A small or imperfect ear of maize. [Colloq. U. S.]

Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim. His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. Prov. xx. 20.