Word Meanings - IMPEOPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.

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• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• POPULATION
  1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants. 2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
• BEAUMONTAGUE
  A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.
• IMPEOPLE
  To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.
• HELPLESS
  1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant. How shall I then your helpless fame defend Pope. 2. Beyond help; irremediable. Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either
• PEOPLED
  Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.
• PEOPLE'S PARTY
  A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
• PEOPLER
  A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie.
• HELPER
  One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish. Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Ps. x. 14. Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils. Dr. H. More.
• HELPFUL
  Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary. Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him! Shak. -- Help"ful*ly, adv. -- Help"ful*ness, n. Milton.
• PEOPLELESS
  Destitute of people. Poe.
• PEOPLE'S BANK
  A form of coöperative bank, such as those of Germany; -- a term loosely used for various forms of coöperative financial institutions.
• HELPMATE
  A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife. In Minorca the ass and the hog are common helpmates, and are yoked together in order to turn up the land. Pennant. A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson.
• HELPMEET
  A wife; a helpmate. The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. J. H. Newman.
• HELP
  helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hjalpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan. 1. To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• DISPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.
• DEPEOPLE
  To depopulate.
• DEPOPULATION
  The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants. The desolation and depopulation were now complete. Motley.
• REPEOPLE
  To people anew.
• REPOPULATION
  The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.
• SELF-HELP
  The act of aiding one's self, without depending on the aid of others.
• UNDERPEOPLED
  Not fully peopled.
• WHELP
  One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass. 4. One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel. (more info) 1. One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy;
• TOWNSPEOPLE
  The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.
• DISPEOPLER
  One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator. Gay.