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To impair; to wear away; to diminish. By starts His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear. Shak.

iquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony. -- Full hand (Poker), three of a kind and a pair. -- Full moon. (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. (b) The time when the moon is full. -- Full organ (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are out. -- Full score (Mus.), a score in…

A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.

anything. So they hanged Haman on the gallows. Esther vii. 10. If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. Shak. O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses Shak.

Same as Gamashes. His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps. Sir W. Scott.

place of a fallen defender or supporter. -- To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.

uscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca. [Written also Gasteropoda.]

gregate. When small humors gather to a gout. Pope. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. Tennyson.

Coupled; paired. Bars gemel (Her.), two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.

A pair. [Obs.] Drayton.

In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray.

Having the flowers arranged in pairs.

Double; in pairs. Sir T. Browne.

Twins; a pair; a couple. [Obs.] Shak.

A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.

Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.

ikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebræ convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel.

steam or odors. -- To give over. (a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon. (b) To despair of. (c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self). The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice. Grew. -- To give place, to withdraw; to yield one's claim. -- To give points. (a) In games of skill, to equa…

An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.

Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves.