Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-PACTING, ppr.

Driving or pressing close.

IM-PAINT, v.i.

To paint; to adorn with colors. Shak.

IM-PAINT-ED, pp.

Ornamented with colors.

IM-PAINTING, ppr.

Adorning with colors.

IM'PAIR, a. [L. impar. unequal.]

In crystalogrophy, when a different number of faces is presented by the prism, and by each summit; but the three numbers follow no law of progression. Clcaveland.

IM-PAIR, or IM-PAIR-MENT, n.

Diminution; decrease; injury. [Not used.] Brown.

IM-PAIR, v.i.

To be lessened or worn out. [Little used.] Spenser.

IM-PAIR, v.t. [Fr. empires; Sp. empeorar; Port. empriorar, from peior, worse, Sp. peor, Fr. Aire, from L. prior.]

1. To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value or excellence. An estate is impaired by extravagance or neglect. The profligate impairs his estate and his reputation. Imprudence impairs a man's usefulness.
2. To weaken; to enfeeble. The constitution is impaired by intemperance, by infirmity and by age. The force of evidence may be impaired by the suspicion of interest in the witness.

IM-PAIR-ED, pp.

Diminished; injured; weakened.

IM-PAIR-ER, n.

lie or that which impairs. Warburton.

IM-PAIR-ING, ppr.

Making worse; lessening; injuring; enfeebling.

IM-PAL'A-TA-BLE, a.

Unpalatable. [Little used.]

IM-PALE, v.t. [L. in and palus, a pole, a stake.]

1. To fix on a stale; to put to death by fixing on an upright sharp stake. [See Empale.]
2. To inclose with stakes, posts or palisades.
3. In heraldry, to join two coats of arms pale-wise. Encyc.

IM-PALE-MENT, n.

1. In heraldry, the division of a shield palewise. [See Pale.]
2. The act of impaling or putting to death on a stake.

IM-PAL'LID, v.t.

To make pallid or pale. [Not in use.] Feltham.

IM-PALM, t. [imp'am. L. in and palme, the hand.]

To grasp; to take in the hand. J. Barlow.

IM-PALP-A-BIL'I-TY, n.

The quality of not being palpable, or perceptible by the touch. Jortin.

IM-PALP-A-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. in and palpo, to feel. See Palpable.]

1. Not to be felt; that can not be perceived by the touch; as, an impalpable powder, whose parts are so minute that they can not be distinguished by the senses, particularly by feeling. Encyc.
2. Not coarse or gross. Warton.

IM-PALP'A-BLY, adv.

In a manner not to be felt.

IM-PAL'SI-ED, pp.

Struck with palsy.

IM-PAL'SI-ED, ppr.

Affecting with palsy.

IM-PAL'SY, v.t.

s as z. [in and palsy.] To strike with palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.

IMPA-NATE, a. [L. in and penis, bread.]

Embodied in bread. Cramer.

IMPA-NATE, v.t.

To embody with bread. liraterland.

IMPA-NA-TED, pp.

Embodied in bread.