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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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56 words match “IMPEN”

To shut up or inclose, as in a pen. Feltham.

IMPEND v. 2 definitions

ar at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent. Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends. Pope.

IMPENDENCE; IMPENDENCY n.

The state of impending; also, that which impends. "Impendence of volcanic cloud." Ruskin.

Impending; threatening. Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. Milton.

Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope.

IMPENETRABILITY n. 3 definitions

Quality of being impenetrable.

IMPENETRABLE a. 3 definitions

pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield. Highest woods impenetrable To star or sunlight. Milton.

IMPENETRABLENESS n.

The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.

IMPENETRABLY adv.

In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously. "Impenetrably armed." Milton. "Impenetrably dull." Pope.

The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart. He will advance from one degree of wickedness and impenitence to another. Rogers.

Impenitence. Milton.

IMPENITENT a. 2 definitions

Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart. "They . . . died impenitent." Milton. "A careless and impenitent heart." Bp. Hall.

IMPENITENTLY adv.

Without repentance.

IMPENNATE a. 2 definitions

One of the Impennes.

An order of birds, including only the penguins, in which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight.

Having no wings, as some insects.

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his amp…

f arctic sea birds of the family Alcidæ. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (or Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre.

or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting. -- Cannon proof, impenetrable by cannon balls. -- Cannon shot. (a) A cannon ball. (b) The range of a cannon.

A California rosaceous shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) which often forms an impenetrable chaparral.