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A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.

A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.

A woman who attends to a dairy.

of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant. Was never prince so meek and debonair. Spenser.

Debonairness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Courteously; elegantly.

The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy. Sterne.

e hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of. We despaired even of life. 2 Cor. i. 8. Never despair of God's blessings here. Wake.

One who despairs.

Hopeless. [Obs.] Spenser.

Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.

To separate (a pair). [R.] I have . . . dispaired two doves. Beau. & Fl.

A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.

opounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.

Down the stairs; to a lower floor. -- a.

An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.

A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.

To make clear; to clear up what is obscure or not understood; to explain.

clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation. The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer. Clarendon.

A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison.