Imprime
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Imprime is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To drive (a hunted animal) out of its shelter.
Meaning
(transitive, obsolete) To drive (a hunted animal) out of its shelter.
Example Sentences
This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. When you find and rouse up the stag and buck, they are said to be imprimed: […]
Word Forms
- imprimes
- impriming
- imprimed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include drive, emboss, outdrive, uncape, shoot out, run down.
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