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Imp   /ɪmp/   Listen
noun
Imp  n.  
1.
A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft. (Obs.)
2.
An offspring; progeny; child; scion. (Obs.) "The tender imp was weaned."
3.
A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker. "To mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps."
4.
Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)


verb
Imp  v. t.  (past & past part. imped; pres. part. imping)  
1.
To graft; to insert as a scion. (Obs.)
2.
(Falconry) To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, (Fig.): To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen; to equip. (Archaic) "Imp out our drooping country's broken wing." "Who lazily imp their wings with other men's plumes." "Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled wing." "Help, ye tart satirists, to imp my rage With all the scorpions that should whip this age."





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"Imp" Quotes from Famous Books



... you what an imp of mischief Kate is," she said. "She is the most daring creature that ever drew the breath of life. Dear Mr. Ingram, forgive me for even doubting you for a moment. I might have known that you would only introduce ...
— The Honorable Miss - A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town • L. T. Meade
... order was executed. It was the first time she had ever received such reward of merit in form; and though it was a slight affair, after all, the hurt and wrong rankled for weeks, and, instead of the gay, dancing imp of former days, henceforth a silent, sullen shadow slipped about and haunted all the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 • Various
... avoided testing it. I want all my forces for a decisive battle. I never heard of such a masterful imp,' she continued, with much more exultation than anxiety, 'his sisters have no chance with him, he rules them like a young Turk. There's the pony! Sophy will let him have it as a right, and it is the work of my life to see that she is not ...
— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge
... though unimportant confusion. We have already seen the forms Nabulione, Nabulion, Napoleone, Napoleon. Contemporary documents give also the form Napoloeone, and his marriage certificate uses Napolione. On the Vendome Column stands Napolio. Imp., which might be read either Napolioni Imperatori or Napolio Imperatori. In either case we have indications of a new form, Napolion or Napolius. The latter, which was more probably intended, would seem to be an attempt to recall Neopolus, a recognized saint's ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane
... "Ye imp," she shrieked, laying about her with a wet towel, "wid yer hathen Dootch! It's that yer up to, is it?" and poor Jocko paid ...
— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis


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