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An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.

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

A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair. Gay. Fairing box, a box receiving savings or small sums of money. Hannah More.

The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

xpose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion. Airing a snowy hand and signet gem. Tennyson.

f 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.

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.

An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural. [U. S.] Bouvier.

A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.

A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler. [Local, U.S.]

Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

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

The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery. It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. They a…

dians, 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…

, adv. Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked. [Archaic]

Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing. Dryden.

The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. This desperation of success chills all our industry. Hammond.

Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention. The business of dilapidations came on between our bishop and the Archibishop of York. Strype.

ng 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 flo…