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nd; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service. The completion of some repairs. Prescott.

truction train (Railroad), a train for transporting men and materials for construction or repairs.

Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.

uardians, for the purpose of defraying the expenses to which counties are liable, such as repairing bridges, jails, etc. [Eng.] -- County seat, a county town. [U.S.] -- County sessions, the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, held four times a year. [Eng.] -- County town, the town of a county, where…

The sun, as the orb of day. [Poetic] So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton.

One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

amage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc. I can repair That detriment, if such it be. Milton.

To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate. Johnson.

ating with deep water, but having appliances for excluding it; -- used in constructing or repairing ships. The name includes structures used for the examination, repairing, or building of vessels, as graving docks, floating docks, hydraulic docks, etc. -- Floating dock, a dock which is made to become buoyant, and, by…

To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. [Colloq.]

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

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

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

1. To repair; to prepare; to put in order. [Prov. Eng.] Carlyle.

just; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room. [Colloq. U.S.]

th flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. "Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw." Pope. -- Flock paper, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.

r." Shak. -- Plastic force (Physiol.), the force which presumably acts in the growth and repair of the tissues. -- Vital force (Physiol.), that force or power which is inherent in organization; that form of energy which is the cause of the vital phenomena of the body, as distinguished from the physical forces general…

To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots.