Middle English Dictionary Entry

impen v.
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1.
(a) To plant (a vine); fig. bury (sb.); (b) to graft (a scion on a tree or branch); graft a scion on (a tree); ~ on, make a graft on (a tree); (c) fig. to put (knowledge into someone's mind); graft (vice or hypocrisy on sb.); (d) to insert (sth. in a poem); ~ in, inscribe (names on a statue), insert (sth. in a poem or narrative); also, interpolate (a book); (e) to add (new documents or proceedings to a lawsuit); (f) to set (sth. in a setting of ivory); (g) to mend (a falcon's feather) by sewing or splicing a new feather on the broken stump.