imp

imp englannista suomeksi

1. maahinen, menninkäinen

2. pikkupiru, riiviö

1. maahinen, piru, pikkupiru

2. riiviö, kakara

2. Substantiivi

imp englanniksi

1. To engraft or plant (a plant or part of one, a sapling, etc.).

2. To graft or implant (something other than a plant); to fix or set (something) in.

3. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

4. To engraft (a feather) on to a broken feather in a bird's wing or tail to repair it; to engraft (feathers) on to a bird, or a bird's wing or tail.

5. (quote-book)|year=1900|page=229|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/artpracticeofhaw00mich/page/229/mode/1up|oclc=562761113|passage=I have known feathers so imped that the eye could not discern the place of juncture, and it was difficult even to discover it by passing the thumb-nail down the shaft of the imped feather.

6. (quote-journal)

7. (quote-book) Repairing or imping broken feathers is a very good option in these cases and may save months or even a year in captivity. (..) &91;page 250, column 1&93; Note that a feather can usually only be imped once since it is very difficult or impossible to remove and then replace an imping needle from within a feather shaft after it has been glued in place.

9. To provide (someone or something) with wings, hence enabling them or it to soar.

10. (RQ:Herbert Temple)

11. To add to or unite an object with (something) to lengthen the latter out or repair it; to out, enlarge, strengthen.

12. A small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful, formerly regarded as the child of the devil or a demon ''(see sense 3.2)''. (defdate)

13. (quote-book)|chapter=The Widow’s Son|translator=Hans Lien Brækstad|title=Folktales|Round the Yule Log: Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales|location=London|publisher=Low|Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington|year=1881|page=218|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=J206AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA218|oclc=1008364902|passage="Yes, there are a great, great many coming after us; at least a score," said the lad.—"Well, that's the troll," said the horse; "he is coming after us with his imps."

14. A mischievous child. (defdate)

(synonyms)

15. (RQ:Beattie Minstrel)

16. (RQ:Grahame Wind in the Willows) I've left my young children to look after themselves, and a more mischievous and troublesome set of young imps doesn't exist, ma'am; (..)

17. A baby devil.

18. (quote-book) Tasmanian devils are marsupials, mammals with pouches. Females give birth to tiny, undeveloped babies called imps. About twenty to thirty imps are born at one time. The imps race to survive. They crawl about 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) to their mother's pouch. The first few to arrive attach themselves to the mother's four nipples. Only these four imps survive.

19. A young shoot of a plant, a tree, etc.; a sapling; also, a part of a plant used for grafting; a graft. (defdate)

20. (quote-book)|trans-title=Sir Orfeo: An English Fairy Tale from the Middle Ages:(nb...)|location=Breslau|publisher=Verlag von Wilhelm Koebner|year=c. late 13th or early 14th century|year_published=1880|page=89|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=tzVk_1pCeIwC&pg=PA89|lines=67–70|oclc=879522108|passage=Þai sett hem doun al þre / Vnder a fair ympetre, / And wel sone þis fair quene / Fel on slepe opon þe grene.|translation=They set them down all three / Under a fair imp-tree, / And well soon this fair queen / Fell asleep upon the green.|brackets=on|termlang=en

21. (RQ:Calvin Golding Psalmes)

22. An offspring or scion, especially of a noble family; a (usually male) child; a (young) man. (defdate)

23. (RQ:Tasso Fairfax Godfrey of Bulloigne)

24. Something added to or united with another to lengthen it out or repair it (such as an eke or small stand on which a beehive is placed, or a length of twisted hair in a line).

25. party