IMPLEMENT (

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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 .