IMPHAL

imphal, the capital of the state of manipur (q.v.) in eastern bengal and assam, on the north-east frontier of india, situated at the confluence of three rivers. pop. (1901) 67,903. it is really only a collection of villages buried amid trees, with a clearing containing the palace of the raja, the cantonments, and the houses of the few european residents. implement (lat. _implementum_, a filling up, from _implere_, to fill), in ordinary usage, a tool, especially in the plural for the set of tools necessary for a particular trade or for completing a particular piece of work (see tools). it is also the most general term applied to the weapons and tools that remain of those used by primitive man. the late lat. _implementum_, more usually in the plural, _implementa_, was used for all the objects necessary to stock or "fill up" a house, farm, &c.; it was thus applied to furniture of a house, the vestments and sacred vessels of a church, and to articles of clothing, &c. the transition to the necessary outfit of a trade, &c., is easy. in its original latin sense of "filling up," the term survives in scots law, meaning full performance or "fulfilment" of a contract, agreement, &c.; "to implement" is thus also used in scots law for to carry out, perform.