repair ment

[Eng. repair (1), v.; -ment.] The act of repairing; reparation. rě-pănd, a. [Lat. rep and us, from re- =back, and pand us bent, crooked.] Botany: Having an uneven and light sinuous margin, as the leaf of Sol anum nigrum . rě-păn-dō-, pref. [REPAND.] repando-dentate, a. Botany: Repand and toothed, as the leaves of Doronicum Pardali anches. Repando-dentate. *rě păn' doŭs, adj . [REPAND.] Bent upward, curved back. "They be drawn rep an do us or convexedly crooked in one piece."- Browne : Vulgar Errors , bk. v., ch. ii. rep-ar-a-bil-1-ty, subst . [ Eng.reparable ; -ity .] The quality or state of being reparable. rep-ar-a-ble, adj . [Fr., from Lat. reparabilis , from reparo to repair; Sp. reparable ; Ital. ripar abile .] [REPAIR (1), v.] 1. Capable of being repaired or restored to a state of soundne ; admitting of repair. "The parts hardly reparable ."- Bacon : Nat . Hist ., § 58. *2. Capable of being repaired, or made amends for. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. reparably IMG:content-0456.png:[blocks in formation] rě-păr-a-tive, or rep-ar-a-tive, a. & s. [Lat. reparatus, pa. par. of reparo =to repair.] †A. As adj .: Having the quality or power of repairing; capable of effecting repair; tending to amend defects or make good. "Reparative inventions, by which art and ingenuity study to help and repair defects or deformities." - Taylor: Artificial Handsomene , p. 60. B. As subst.: That which repairs or restores to a good, whole, or sound state; that which amends. "Whereupon new preparatives were in hand, and partly reparatives of the former beaten at sea."- Reliquia Wottoniana, p. 230. reparative-power, substant. [REGENERATION.] ( Owen .) *rě-păr-rel, s . [Pref. re- , and English apparel (q. v.).] A change of apparel. "Let them but lend him a suit of reparrel and nece aries."- Beaumont & Fletcher: Knight of Burning Pestle. (Introd.) *rě-par-rel, *re-par-rell, v. t . [REPAREL, 8.] To repair. "He salle reparell this citee." -MS . Lincoln, A. i. 17, fo. 11. rěp-ar-teē', *rep-ar-tie, *rep-ar-ty, s . [Fr. repartie a reply; orig. fem. of reparti , pa. par. of repartir to redivide to reply: re-again, and partir (Latin partio , part i or )= to divide.] A smart, ready, and witty reply. "Offend not him, whom modesty restrains From repartee ." Cowper : Tirocinium, 728. rěp-ar-teē, v . i . [REPARTEE, 8.] To make repartees, or smart, witty replies. "For in all visits, who but she, To argue, or to repartee ?" Prior: Hans Carvel.