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

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

of 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…

rdians, 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 th…

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

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.

ing 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 fl…

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.

Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. Shak.

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

The process of repairing broken feathers or a deficient wing.