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An offspring; progeny; child; scion. [Obs.] The tender imp was weaned. Fairfax.

A pole for supporting a scaffold.

Not to be appeased or quieted. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Im*pa"ca*bly, adv.

The state of being closely surrounded, crowded, or pressed, as by ice. [R.] Kane.

Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated. The quarrel, by that impact driven. Southey.

Driven together or close. Impacted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.

fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

To paint; to adorn with colors. [R.] "To impaint his cause." Shak.

ke worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value. Time sensibly all things impairs. Roscommon. In years he seemed, but not impaired by years. Pope.

One who, or that which, impairs.

The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.

Unpalatable. [R.]

ale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale. Then with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison.

The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled. Byron.

The pallah deer of South Africa.

To make pallid; to blanch. [Obs.] Feltham.

To grasp with or hold in the hand. [R.] J. Barlow.

The quality of being impalpable. Jortin.

alpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch. "Impalpable powder." Boyle.

In an impalpable manner.