in *Law*, is where something is implied that is not expressed by the parties themselves in their deeds, contracts, or agreements.

To IMPLY, or CARRY, in *Music*. These we have used as synonymous terms in that article. They are intended to signify those sounds which ought to be the proper concomitants of any note, whether by its own nature, or by its position in artificial harmony. Thus every note, considered as an independent sound, may be said to carry or imply its natural harmonics, that is to say, its octave, its twelfth, and its seventeenth; or, when reduced, its eighth, its fifth, and its third. But the same sound, when considered as constituting any part of harmony, is subjected to other laws and different limitations. It can then only be said to carry or imply such simple sounds, or complications of sound, as the preceding and subsequent chords admit or require. For these the laws of melody and harmony must be consulted. See Melody and Harmony.