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Webster 1913 Edition

Implement

Im′ple-ment

(ĭm′plē̍-ment)
,
Noun.
[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.

Im′ple-ment

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To accomplish; to fulfill.
[R.]
Revenge . . . executed and
implemented
by the hand of Vanbeest Brown.
Sir W. Scott.
2.
To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.
The chief mechanical requisites of the barometer are
implemented
in such an instrument as the following.
Nichol.
3.
(Scots Law)
To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.

Webster 1828 Edition

Implement

IM'PLEMENT

,
Noun.
[Low L.implementum, from impleo, to fill; in and pleo.]may supply wants; particularly, as now used, tools, utensils, vessels, instruments; the tools or instruments of labor; the vessels used in a kitchen, &c.; as the implements of trade or of husbandry. [It is a word of very extensive signification.]

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