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, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth. Minds well implanted with solid . . . breeding. Milton.

The act or process of implantating.

To implant again.

general fitness or suitableness; adaptation. That sociable and helpful aptitude which God implanted between man and woman. Milton.

To enroot; to implant. [Obs.] Spenser.

To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep. Shak.

Caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.

earliest effects or results. See, Father, what first fruits on earth are sprung From thy implanted grace in man! Milton. -- First mate, an officer in a merchant vessel next in rank to the captain. -- First name, same as Christian name. See under Name, n. -- First officer (Naut.), in the merchant service, same as Fir…

firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make efinite. An ass's nole I fixed on his head. Shak. O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence. Herbert. His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. Ps. cxii. 7. And fix far…

To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.

Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions. Cowper.

To implant or fix; to instill; to inculcate, as principles, thoughts, or instructions; as, to infix good principles in the mind, or ideas in the memory.

To enroot or implant.

To cause to stop or rest in; to implant. He lodged an arrow in a tender breast. Addison.

piritually born anew; to cause to become a Christian; to convert from sin to holiness; to implant holy affections in the heart of.

To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.

Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart. "A rooted sorrow." Shak. -- Root"*ed*ly, adv. -- Root"ed*ness, n.

gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. [Written also silvanite.]

A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebræ and the teeth implanted in sockets.

An oxysulphide of lead occurring in implanted spherical globules of a yellowish or brownish color; -- called also voltzine.