·noun An offspring; progeny; child; scion.
II. Imp ·noun A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.
III. Imp ·noun To Graft; to insert as a scion.
IV. Imp ·noun A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker.
V. Imp ·noun 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.
VI. Imp ·noun 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.