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To return. [Obs.] I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer.

Reparable. Gauden.

One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.

Act of repairing.

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

high, or the water in the boiler too low. -- Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm.

One who makes or repairs armor or arms.

s 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.

ing to load. -- Battery wagon, a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery. -- In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. -- Masked battery, a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the…

To mend; to repair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up. Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. Robynson (More's Utopia).

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.]

The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.

A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to orgiginate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase. Dunglison.

er so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.

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

fference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons. Our fathers did for change to France repair. Dryden. The ringing grooves of change. Tennyson.