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A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.

That can not be impaired. Hakewill.

Not paired; not suited or matched. And minds unpaired had better think alone. Crabbe.

To impair; to destroy. [Obs.] Hacket.

(Anat.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.

To render sharp or keen. [R.] "To acuminate even despair." Cowper.

hension, perhaps less than terror. He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith.

igh, or the water in the boiler too low. -- Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm.

One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law. -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic (#),…

To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.

ing both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.

porting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.

A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennæ or feelers of Crustacea.

or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reas…

One who makes or repairs armor or arms.

third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; - - opposed to Perissodactyla.

of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir T. Browne.

rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction. Astatic pair (Magnetism), a pair of magnetic needles so mounted as to be nearly or quite astatic, as in some galvanometers.

The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.