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The act or process of grafting or mending. [Archaic]

to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon. The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. Sir I. Newton. But, in the present order of things, not to be employed without impinging on God's justice. Bp. Warburton.

The act of impinging.

Striking against or upon.

To fatten; to make fat. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened. [Obs.]

In a limping manner.

Little; petty; pitiful. [Obs.] Crabbe.

a. & n. from Scrimp, v. t. Scrimping bar, a device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise so that it may be smooth for printing. Knight.

In a scrimping manner.

The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge.

Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets. P. Cyc.

To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.

Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.

Limping. [R.]

A halting or limping. [R.] Tatler.

the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc. Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers. -- Crimping iron. (a) An iron instrument for crimping and curling the hair. (b) A crimpi…

The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.

to the required shape. (b) A device for giving hair a wavy apperance. (c) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.

dy; spruce; neat. [Archaic or Poetic] "The deftest way." Shak. "Deftest feats." Gay. The limping god, do deft at his new ministry. Dryden. Let me be deft and debonair. Byron.