2. Incapable of being relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable. [R.]

O! how I burn with implacable fire.

Spenser.

Which wrought them pain Implacable, and many a dolorous groan.

Milton.

Syn. -- Unappeasable; inexorable; irreconcilable; unrelenting;

relentless; unyielding.

Im*pla"ca*ble*ness (?), n. The quality of being implacable;

implacability.

Im*pla"ca*bly, adv. In an implacable manner.

Im`pla*cen"tal (?), a. (Zoöl.) Without a placenta, as marsupials and

monotremes. -- n. A mammal having no placenta.

||Im`pla*cen*ta"li*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See In- not, and Placental.]

||(Zoöl.) A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes

||and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed.

||

Im*plant" (?) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implanted; p. pr. & vb. n.

Implanting.] [Pref. im- in + plant: cf. F. implanter.] To plant, or

infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to

inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the

principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth.

Minds well implanted with solid . . . breeding.

Milton.

Im`plan*ta"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. implantation.] The act or process of

implanting.

Im*plate" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implated; p. pr. & vb. n.

Implating.] To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship

with iron.

Im*plau`si*bil"i*ty (?), n. Want of plausibility; the quality of being

implausible.

Im*plau"si*ble (?), a. [Pref. im- not + plausible: cf. F.

implausible.] Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or

credibility, and not likely to be believed. "Implausible harangues."

Swift.

-- Im*plau"si*ble*ness, n. -- Im*plau"si*bly, adv.

Im*pleach" (?), v. t. To pleach; to interweave. [Obs.] Shak.

Im*plead" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impleaded; p. pr. & vb. n.

Impleading.] [Cf. Emplead.] (Law) To institute and prosecute a suit

against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to

impeach.

Im*plead", v. i. To sue at law.

Im*plead"a*ble (?), a. Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea;

rigorous. [R.] T. Adams.

Im*plead"er (?), n. (Law) One who prosecutes or sues another.

Im*pleas"ing (&?;), a. Unpleasing; displeasing. [Obs.] Overbury.

Im*pledge" (?), v. t. To pledge. Sir W. Scott.

Im"ple*ment (m"pl*ment), n. [LL. implementum accomplishment, fr. L.

implere, impletum, to fill up, finish, complete; pref. im- in + plere

to fill. The word was perh. confused with OF. empleier, emploier, to

employ, F. employer, whence E. employ. See Plenty.] That which fulfills

or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, tool, or utensil, as

supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of

husbandry, or of war.

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement.

Coleridge.

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