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ase, a case of toilet utensils. -- Dressing forceps, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds. -- Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown. -- Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet. -- Dressing table, a tabl…

ence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! Thackeray.

skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The drums cry bud-a-dub. Gascoigne.

isting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.

Two units treated as one; a couple; a pair.

Impairment of any of the senses, esp. of touch.

A pendant for the ear; an earring; as, a pair of eardrops.

A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet.

One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. See Coleoptera.

ecorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.

erve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.

One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles.

Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal.

e notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension. Herror, though his candor remained unimpaired. Bancroft.

Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to Ant: good. Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. Milton. The evil that men do lives after them. Shak.

That may be exacted; repairable. [R.] A. Smith.

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.

A lens of glass to assist the sight. Eyeglasses are used singly or in pairs.

livered for execution. -- False ribs (Anat.), the asternal rebs, of which there are five pairs in man. -- False roof (Arch.), the space between the upper ceiling and the roof. Oxford Gloss. -- False token, a false mark or other symbol, used for fraudulent purposes. -- False scorpion (Zoöl.), any arachnid of the gen…

Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault. Shak.