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Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness. [R.] Sherwood.

Chamber; house; -- used in Ca"ma*ra dos Pa"res, and Ca"ma*ra dos De`pu*ta"dos. See Legislature.

Same as Chaparajos. [Sp. Amer.]

ces or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention. Compare dead happiness with living woe. Shak. The place he found beyond expression bright, Compared with aught on earth. Milton. Compare our faces and be judge yourself. Shak. To compare great things with small. Milton.…

One who compares.

To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked. Drink disapparels the soul. Junius (1635).

To render unprepared. [Obs.] Hobbes.

Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids.

Peerless; incomparable. [Obs.] Spenser.

Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person; a nonesuch; -- often used as a name.

The finfoot.

urpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden.

Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv. Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n.

One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood.

See Rapparee.

7th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary. [Written also raparee.]

To clothe again.

A change of apparel; a second or different suit. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

Kyanite. [Written also sappar.]

Imperfect or partial transparency.