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  • English Word Painting Definition Color laid on; paint.
  • English Word Painting Definition A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.
  • English Word Paintless Definition Not capable of being painted or described.
  • English Word Painture Definition The art of painting.
  • English Word Painty Definition Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.
  • English Word Pair Definition A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
  • English Word Pair Definition Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
  • English Word Pair Definition Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
  • English Word Pair Definition A married couple; a man and wife.
  • English Word Pair Definition A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
  • English Word Pair Definition Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
  • English Word Pair Definition In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
  • English Word Pair Definition To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
  • English Word Pair Definition To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
  • English Word Pair Definition Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
  • English Word Pair Definition To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.
  • English Word Pair Definition To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
  • English Word Pair Definition To impair.
  • English Word Paired Definition of Pair
  • English Word Pairer Definition One who impairs.
  • English Word Pairing Definition of Pair
  • English Word Pairing Definition The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.
  • English Word Pairing Definition See To pair off, under Pair, v. i.
  • English Word Pairment Definition Impairment.
  • English Word Pairs Royal Definition of Pair
  • English Word Pais Definition The country; the people of the neighborhood.
  • English Word Paisano Definition The chaparral cock.
  • English Word Paise Definition See Poise.
  • English Word Pajock Definition A peacock.
  • English Word Pakfong Definition See Packfong.