Part 5605

<h1>Imperforable</h1> <Xpage=735>

<hw>Im*per"fo*ra*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Imperforate</er>.]</ety> <def>Incapable of being perforated, or bored through.</def>

<h1>Imperforata</h1> <Xpage=735>

<hw>Im*per"fo*ra"ta</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL. See <er>Imperforate</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A division of Foraminifera, including those in which the shell is not porous.</def>

<h1>Imperforate, Imperforated</h1> <Xpage=735>

<hw><hw>Im*per"fo*rate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Im*per"fo*ra"ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. pref. <ets>im-</ets> not + <ets>perforatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>perforate</ets> to perforate. See <er>Perforate</er>.]</ety> <def>Not perforated; having no opening or aperture.</def>

<i>Sir J. Banks.</i>

<h1>Imperforation</h1> <Xpage=735>

<hw>Im*per`fo*ra"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>imperforation</ets>.]</ety> <def>The state of being without perforation.</def>

<h1>Imperial</h1> <Xpage=735>

<hw>Im*pe"ri*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>emperial</ets>, OF. <ets>emperial</ets>, F. <ets>imp\'82rial</ets>, fr. L. <ets>imperialis</ets>, fr. <ets>imperium</ets> command, sovereignty, empire. See <er>Empire</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; <as>as, an <ex>imperial</ex> government; <ex>imperial</ex> authority or edict.</as></def>

<blockquote>The last That wore the <b>imperial</b> diadem of Rome. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme.</def> "The <i>imperial</i> democracy of Athens."

<i>Mitford.</i>

<blockquote>Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an <b>imperial</b> voice. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are <b>imperial</b> arts, and worthy thee. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He sounds his <b>imperial</b> clarion along the whole line of battle. <i>E. Everett.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Of superior or unusual size or excellence; <as>as, <ex>imperial</ex> paper; <ex>imperial</ex> tea, etc.</as></def>

<cs><mcol><col>Imperial bushel</col>, <col>gallon</col></mcol>, <cd>etc. See <er>Bushel</er>, <er>Gallon</er>, etc.</cd> -- <col>Imperial chamber</col>, <cd>the, the sovereign court of the old German empire.</cd> -- <col>Imperial city</col>, <cd>under the first German empire, a city having no head but the emperor.</cd> -- <col>Imperial diet</col>, <cd>an assembly of all the states of the German empire.</cd> -- <col>Imperial drill</col>. <fld>(Manuf.)</fld> <cd>See under 8th <er>Drill</er>.</cd> -- <col>Imperial eagle</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Eagle</er>.</cd> -- <col>Imperial green</col>. <cd>See <cref>Paris green</cref>, under <er>Green</er>.</cd> -- <col>Imperial guard</col>, <cd>the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I.</cd> -- <col>Imperial weights and measures</col>, <cd>the standards legalized by the British Parliament.</cd></cs>

<h1>Imperial</h1> <Xpage=735>

<hw>Im*pe"ri*al</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>imp\'82riale</ets>: cf. Sp. <ets>imperial</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; -- so called from the style of beard of Napoleon III.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An outside seat on a diligence.</def>

<i>T. Hughes.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A luggage case on the top of a coach.</def>

<i>Simmonds.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Anything of unusual size or excellence, as a large decanter, a kind of large photograph, a large sheet of drowing, printing, or writing paper, etc.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight dollars.</def>