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

An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs. 3. (Sport)

One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.

An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone.

The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.

Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.

Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The process of repairing broken feathers or a deficient wing.

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. T. Burnet.

A worker in iron; one who makes and repairs utensils of iron; a blacksmith.

Not reparable; not capable of being repaired, recovered, regained, or remedied; irretrievable; irremediable; as, an irreparable breach; an irreparable loss. Shak.

fense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers. Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak.

ine the rails of a railroad to see if they are in good condition; also, a man employed to repair telegraph lines.

experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens. Carew. A maiden of our century, yet most meek. Tennyson.

end or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

One who mends or repairs.

A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs.

That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment. The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body. South.