Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IM'PLE-MENT
IM'PLE-MENT, n. [Low. L. implementum, from impleo, to fill; in and pleo.]
Whatever may supply wants; particularly, as now used, tools, utensils, vessels, instruments; the tools or instruments of labor; the vessels used in a kitchen, &c.; as, the implements of trade or of husbandry. [It is a word of very extensive signification.]
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