Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-BANK'ED, pp.

Inclosed or defended with a bank.

IM-BANK'ING, ppr.

Inclosing or surrounding with a bank.

IM-BANK'MENT, n.

1. The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
2. Inclosure by a bank; the banks or mounds of earth the are raised to defend a place, especially against floods.

IM-BAN'NER-ED, a.

Furnished with banners.

IM-BARN', v.t.

To deposit in a barn. [Not used.] Herbert.

IM-BAS'TARD-IZE, v.t.

To bastardize, – which see. Milton.

IM-BATHE', v.t. [in and bathe.]

To bathe all over. And gave her to her daughters to imbathe / In nectar'd lavers strowed with asphodel. Milton's Comus, v. 837. “The word imbathe occurs in our author's Reformation: – 'Methinks a sovereign and reviving joy must needs rush into the bosom of him, that reads or hears; and the sweet odor of the returning gospel imbathe his soul with the fragrance of heaven.' (Prose-Works, vol. i. p. 2.) What was enthusiasm in most of the Puritanical writers, was poetry in Milton.” T. Warton's Minor Poems of Milton, p. 235. – E. B. H.

IM-BATH'ED, pp.

Bathed all over.

IM-BEAD', v.t. [in and bead.]

To fasten with a bead. The strong bright bayonet imbeaded fast. J. Barlow.

IM-BEAD'ED, pp.

Fastened with a bead.

IM-BEAD'ING, ppr.

Fastening with a bead.

IM'BE-CILE, a. [im'becil; L. imbecillis; Fr. imbecile. This seems to be a compound word, of which the primitive bec, is not now to be found or recognized.]

Weak; feeble; destitute of strength, either of body or of mind; impotent. Barrow.

IM-BE-CIL'I-TY, n. [L. imbecillitas; Fr. imbecillité.]

1. Want of strength; weakness; feebleness of body or of mind. We speak of the imbecility of the body or of the intellect, when either does not possess the usual strength and vigor that belongs to men, and which is necessary to a due performance of its functions. This may be natural, or induced by violence or disease.
2. Impotence of males; inability to procreate children.

IM-BED', v.t. [in and bed.]

To sink or lay in a bed; to place in a mass of earth, sand or other substance, so as to be partly inclosed.

IM-BED'DED, pp.

Laid or inclosed, as in a bed or mass of surrounding matter.

IM-BED'DING, ppr.

Laying, as in a bed.

IM-BEL'LIC, a. [L. in and bellicus.]

Not warlike or martial. [Little used.] Junius.

IM-BENCH'ING, n. [in and bench.]

A raised work like a bench. Parkhurst.

IM-BIBE', v.t. [L. imbibo; in and bibo, to drink; Fr. imbiber.]

1. To drink in; to absorb; as, a dry or porous body imbibes a fluid; a spunge imbibes moisture.
2. To receive or admit into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors. Imbibing in the mind always implies retention, at least for a time.
3. To imbue, as used by Newton; but he has not been followed.

IM-BIB'ED, pp.

Drank in, as a fluid; absorbed; received into the mind and retained.

IM-BIB'ER, n.

He or that which imbibes.

IM-BIB'ING, ppr.

Drinking in; absorbing; receiving and retaining.

IM-BI-BI'TION, n.

The act of imbibing. Bacon.

IM-BIT'TER, v.t. [in and bitter.]

1. To make bitter.
2. To make unhappy or grievous; to render distressing. The sins of youth often imbitter old age. Grief imbitters our enjoyments.
3. To exasperate; to make more severe, poignant or painful. The sorrows of true penitence are imbittered by a sense of our ingratitude to our Almighty Benefactor.
4. To exasperate; to render more violent or malignant; as, to imbitter enmity, anger, rage, passion, &c.

IM-BIT'TER-ED, pp.

Made unhappy or painful; exasperated.