Imp

Definition of Imp

Pronunciation: ĭmp

n.	1.	A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.
	2.	An offspring; progeny; child; scion. The tender imp was weaned. - Fairfax.
	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. - Beattie.
	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.
v. t.	1.	To graft; to insert as a scion. [imp. & p. p. Imped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Imping.]
	2.	(Falconry) To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Imp out our drooping country's broken wing. - Shak. Who lazily imp their wings with other men's plumes. - Fuller. Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled wing. - Holmes. Help, ye tart satirists, to imp my rage With all the scorpions that should whip this age. - Cleveland.

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