Definition of pair

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Pair (v. i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below.

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Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend..
Laemodipoda :: Laemodipoda (n. pl.) A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples..
Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
Piece :: Piece (v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out..
Deteriorate :: Deteriorate (v. t.) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind..
Slip :: Slip (n.) An inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair..
Keep :: Keep (v. i.) To last; to endure; to remain unimpaired.
Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate..
Corvee :: Corvee (n.) An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign..
Stereographic :: Stereograph (n.) Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography..
Recure :: Recure (v. t.) To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair..
Vitiate :: Vitiate (v. t.) To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air..
Tiebeam :: Tiebeam (n.) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof..
Polygenist :: Polygenist (n.) One who maintains that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair; -- opposed to monogenist.
Odd :: Odd (superl.) Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove..
Watchmaker :: Watchmaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.
Clasper :: Clasper (n.) One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.
Imp :: Imp (n.) To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen to equip..
Dote :: Dote (v. i.) To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel..
Intrapetiolar :: Intrapetiolar (a.) Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning..
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