IMPORT (3)

Im″port (?), n. 1. 1. Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; — generally in the plural, opposed to exports.
I take the imports from, and not the exports to, these conquests, as the measure of these advantages which we derived from them. Burke. 2. 2. That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.
3. 3. Importance; weight; consequence.
Most serious design, and the great import. Shak.