n. | 1. | A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft. |
2. | An offspring; progeny; child; scion. | |
3. | A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker. | |
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. |
2. | (Falconry) To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. |
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2. | imp - one who is playfully mischievous |
1. | (language) | IMP - IMProved Mercury autocode. | |
2. | (language) | IMP - An extensible dialect of ALGOL 60, for CDC 1604. ["Experience with an Extensible Language", Edgar T. Irons, CACM 13(1):31-39, Jan 1970]. | |
3. | (language) | IMP - Interpretive Menu Processor. | |
4. | (language) | IMP - IMPlementation language. | |
5. | (networking) | IMP - Interface Message Processor. |