Definition of Imping

1. n. The act or process of grafting or mending.

Definition of Imping

1. Noun. The act or process of grafting or mending. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imping

1. the process of grafting [n -S]

Medical Definition of Imping

1. 1. The act or process of grafting or mending. 2. The process of repairing broken feathers or a deficient wing. See: Imp to graft. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imping

impictured
impierce
impierceable
impierced
impierces
impiercing
impies
impieties
impiety
impignorate
impignorated
impignorates
impignorating
impignoration
impignorations
imping (current term)
impinge
impinge on
impinged
impingement
impingements
impinger
impingers
impinges
impinging
impings
impinguate
impinguated
impinguates
impinguating

Literary usage of Imping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Coursing and Falconry by Harding Edward de Fonglanque Cox, Gerald William Lascelles, Charles Richardson (1899)
"CHAPTER VII GENERAL MANAGEMENT — MEWS BLOCKS — PERCHES BOW- PERCH — BATHING — CONDITION — FEEDING — CASTINGS — imping—MOULTING—VARIOUS DISEASES—GENERAL ..."

2. Falconry: Its Claims, History, and Practice by Gage Earle Freeman, Francis Henry Salvin (1859)
"imping. WIRE FENCES. — SPURIOUS AND TRUE SPORTSMEN. A LOST HAWK. — THE VOICES OF THE PAST. " THE merciful man is merciful to his beast," truly; ..."

3. A Treatise of Modern Faulconry: To which is Prefixed, from Authors Not by James Campbell (1773)
"Of imping the Hawk's Feathers when broken, THE feathers that are proper to be imped arc the fix large feathers from the top of the wing to ..."

4. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1832)
"... at the instance of ihe. bankrupt himself, is not war- muted—Held, that a trustee imping ... imping ..."

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