Imp

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.

Noun	1.	imp - (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, pixie, pixy, hob
	2.	imp - one who is playfully mischievous Synonyms: scamp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag

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.

Interface Message Processors (ARPANET, MILNET)Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Dingbelle, Fifinella, Finnbeara, Hob, Hobgoblin, JD, Mab, Oberon, Puck, Titania, appendage, arm, bad boy, bad fairy, bad peri, banshee, booger, bough, branch, brat, brownie, buffoon, bugger, cluricaune, cutup, devil, deviling, devilkin, diablotin, dwarf, elf, enfant terrible, erlking, fairy, fairy queen, fay, funmaker, gamin, gnome, goblin, gremlin, hand, hob, hobgoblin, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, joint, joker, jokester, juvenile delinquent, knave, kobold, leg, leprechaun, limb, link, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, lobe, lobule, member, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, monkey, offshoot, organ, ouphe, peri, pinion, pixie, poltergeist, pooka, practical joker, prankster, puca, puck, punk, punk kid, pwca, ramification, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, runner, scamp, scapegrace, scion, spoiled brat, spray, sprig, sprite, spur, switch, sylph, sylphid, tail, tendril, tokoloshe, troll, twig, urchin, wag, whippersnapper, wing, young devil

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