pair 
2. A .single tiling compiled essentially of two 
pieces oi- ].:u-is uliicli ar<> useil only in combi- 
nation ami mimei I only in t lie plunii: as, a pair 
of scissors, trousers, or >peet;icleg. 
With that the wicked carle, the malster Smith, 
A paire of red whot yrou tongs did take 
Out of the burning cinders. Hint thurfwltll 
1 mil r his side liiin nipt. Spe)uet; F. Q., IV. v. 44. 
l.o a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of 
in his hanil. Rev. vl. :>. 
Set Forms are a pair of Compasses. 
Selden, Table Talk, p. BO. 
3. A couple; a brace; a span: as, a pair of 
pistols ; /Kiii- of horses. 
And peyer of grett Candylstykes. 
Torlrinyton, Uhirie of Eng. Travell, p. 11. 
To-morrow is our wedding day, 
And we will then repair 
Unto the Bell at Edmonton, 
All in a chaise and pair. 
Cowper, John Ullpin. 
"Come to my dressing-room, Becky, and let us abuse 
the company" which, between them, this vairot friends 
did perfectly. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xi. 
A human heart should beat for two, 
Whate er may say your single scorners; 
And all the hearths 1 ever knew 
Had got a pair of chimney-corners. 
F. Lacker, Old Letters. 
Specifically 4. A married couple ; in general, 
two mated animals of any kind. 
Alle shullen deye for hus dedes by dales and hulles, 
And the foules that flen forth with othere bestes. 
Except onliche of eche kynde a peyre, 
That In thy shynglede schlp with the shal be saued. 
Pirn Plowman (CX xl. 231. 
Two women faster welded In one love 
Than pain at wedlock. Tennyson, Princess, vi. 
5. A set of like or equal things: restricted to a 
few (mostly obsolete) phrases : as, a pair (or 
pack) of cards; a pair (or flight) of stairs; &pair 
of organs (that is, a set of organ-pipes, hence an 
organ): &pair of gallows (that is, a gibbet); a 
pair of beads (see bead). 
Of smal coral abowte hire ami she baar 
Apart of bedes gauded al with grene. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 159. 
Whattalkest thou to me of the hangman? If I hang 
I'll make a fat pair of gallows ; for if I hang, old Sir John 
hangs with me, and thou knowest he Is no starveling. 
Shale., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 74. 
I ha' nothing but my skin, 
And my clothes ; my sword here, and myself ; 
Two crowns In my pocket, two pair of cards. 
Fletcher (and another), Sea Voyage, I. 1. 
Prudence took them into the dining-room, where stood 
a pair of excellent virginals. nairli* 
Banyan, Pilgrim's Progress, IL P a V 
Though you live up two pair of stairs, Is any home hap- 
pier than yours, Philip? 
Thackeray, Adventures of Philip, xxxiv. 
6. In archery, a set of three arrows. 7. In 
mining, a set or gang of men working together 
at the same hours. 8. In deliberative bodies, 
two members belonging to opposing parties 
who for their own convenience (as to permit 
one or both of them to be absent) arrange with 
each other to refrain from voting for a specified 
time or on a specified question, thus nullifying a 
vote on each side ; also, the arrangement thus 
effected. See pairing!. 9. In poker, two of 
the same denomination, without regard to suit 
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Ing a set : as, a pair of horses, gloves, oars ; a wedded pair; 
;. loving run],!,- ; hut pair also means two things alike and 
put together, and ample has liy colloquial use come to be 
often applied to two, nowevcr accidentally brought toge- 
Hi'T a-, uive him a cnuple of apples. Yoke, on the other 
hand, applies only to two animals customarily yoked toge- 
ther : as, a yoke of oxen. Brace Is rather a hunters' term, 
with limited and peculiar application : as, a brace of par- 
t ridges, pistols, slugs. Dyatt is used In philosophical and 
mathematical language only. Duad Is a special mathe- 
matical word signifying an unordered pair. 
pair 1 (par), f. [= O. paaren = Sw. para = 
pakald 
vthelesse I geese all thlngU to be peyrement for the 
cleer science of lesus Crist my Lord, for whom I made alle 
thingis pryrrmrnt. Wydif, i'hil. 111. 8. 
Engle his wife he drofe away, A held In peyrment. 
pair-toed (par'tdd), a. In 
oniilli vnlcp topH nr rvan 
S'| ] 
dactyl > Having the toes in 
two before and 
Hob. o/Brunne, p. 68. 
pairs, two before and two 
behind. SIT ::i/i/inl(ictyt. 
parre; from the noun: see pair 1 -, .] I. i- pairtrick (par'frik). n. 
dialectal (Scotch) form 
trails. 1. To form a pair or pairs ; specifically, 
to be joined in pairs as birds are in the breed- 
ing season; mate; couple. 
Your hand, my Perdita : so turtles pair, 
That never mean to part, .s'/m*-., W. T., Iv. 4. 154. 
2. To suit ; fit ; mateh. 
Had our prince, 
Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had pair rf 
Well with this lord. Shak., W. T, v. 1. 118. 
This with the other should, at least, have pair 'd. 
J/ittim, A. A., 1. 2U8. 
Etheliuda 1 
My heart was made to At and pair with thine. 
Jiotre, The Boyal Convert, ill. 
To pair Off. (a) To separate from a company In pain 
or couples. 
At the end of the third set supper was announced ; and 
the party, pairing off like turtles, adjourni-d to the sap 
per-room. Peacock, Headlong Hall, xiii. 
(ft) To abstain from voting by arrangement with a member 
of the opposite party to do the same : said of members of 
deliberative assemblies. See pairing! . 
The judges are certainly the hardest-worked class of 
office-holders except members of Congress in session, 
and even they can pair of. The Century, XXX. 829. 
II. trans. 1. To join in couples ; specifically, 
to cause to mate : as, to pair a canary with a 
siskin. 
Miml are so hardly matched, that even the first. 
Though paired by Heaven, in Paradise were cursed. 
Dryden, To John Dryden, L 22. 
Turtles and doves of differing hues unite, 
And glossy jet Ispair'd with shining white. 
Pope, tr. of Ovid's Sappho to Phaon, 1. 44. 
2. To unite or assort in twos as well suited to 
each other. 
Virtue and grace are always paired together. 
Beau, and Ft., Woman-Hater, Iv. 2. 
The first summons, Cuckoo ! of thy bill. 
With Its twin notes inseparably paired. 
Wordfunrth, Sonnets, iii. 14. 
Innocent child and snow-white flower! 
Well are ye paired in your opening hour. 
Bryant, Innocent Child and Snow-white Flower. 
[ME. pairen,payren,peiren, by apher- 
esis for empairen, impair: see impair 1 .] I. 
trans. To impair. 
Lefe of this Langore, as my lefe brother. 
That puttes the to payne and peiret thl sight, 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.X 1. 3588. 
Whatsoever Is new is unlooked for and ever it mends 
some, and pairt others. Bacon, Innovations (ed. 1887). 
II. intrans. To become impaired; deteriorate. 
If tlio thingis that schulen perische & paire 
Vnto tbi sighte thus semeli bee, 
Weel maist thou wite y am weel faire. 
Of whom ech thing hath his bewte. 
Political Poenu, etc. (ed. FurnlvallX p. 186. 
The life of man Is such that either it paireth or amend- 
eth. J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1858X II. 29. 
Pair-toed or Zygodac- 
tyl Fool' oT Woodpecker. 
pairwlse (par'wiz), adv. [< 
pair 1 + -wise.] In pairs. 
iji rum in n uwupusvu). 
Such as continued refractory he "jJw^S 1 * .'(. ^ \*~ "* 
tied together by the beards, and ,Suo. 4 
hung pairwue over poles. Cailyle. 
pais't, n. A Middle English form of peace. 
pais-t (pa), n. [< OF. pats, Y.pays, country: see 
peasant.] In law, the people from among whom 
a jury is takenAct In pals. See art. -Estoppel en 
pail. See wtpppef. In pals, In pays, literally, In the 
country, or In the community ; in the Knowledge or Judg- 
ment of the vicinage. The phrase, In Its original use, has 
no exact equivalent In modern English. Per pall, by a 
jury of the country. Questions of facts coming before the 
common-law courts were mostly determined perpait. The 
chief if not the only exception was where a question was 
made as to a matter depending upon a record, In which 
case no jury was called, but the trial was by bare inspec- 
tion of the record. From these twoclasaes of trials came 
the custom of designating matters which if litigated could 
not be determined by the record as matters in paif. 
pais :! , n. [W. pats, a coat, petticoat.] In ar- 
cheeol., a garment worn by the ancient Britons, 
and perpetuated in the belted plaid. The name 
Is used alike by archaeologists for the plaid in one piece 
and also for the filibeg. //. S. Cuming, In Jour. Brit. Ar- 
chKol. Ass., X. 172; Planche, Hist of Costume, p. 14. 
paisa.no (Sp. pron. pa-e-sa'no), . [Sp., lit. 
rustic, peasant: see jteasant.] The chaparral- 
cock or road-runner, Geococcyx calif ornianus. 
See Geococcyx, and cut under chaparral-cock. 
[Southwestern United States.] 
paiset, a. and f. An obsolete form of poise. 
paisiblet, a. A Middle English form of peace- 
able. 
paitrelt, ". A Middle English variant form of 
pvitrel. 
paitrick (pa'trik), M. Adialectal (Scotch) form 
of partridge. 
The paitrick whlrrln' o'er the ley. 
The swallow jinkln' round my shiel, 
Amuse me at my spinning-wheel. 
Burns, Bess and her Spinning- Wheel. 
paiwnrt. n. An undetermined plant, said by 
Halliwell to be the herb saxifrage. fProv. 
EngJ 
gun. See gun 1 
or color : as, a pair of aces or deuces A pair of paired (pard), a. 1. Arranged in pairs : said of 
colors, the two flags carried by an Infantry regiment, as corresponding parts situated on opposite sides 
is $$z% sxwz^^jss&sz ? f a bo p d j' as 2 th M a n 8 f a man> SSse ? f 
of it, and the other bears devices, mottos, etc.. peculiar to insects, etc. 2. Mated, as any two individuals 
the regiment A pair of knives*. See kn\fe. Con- * different sexes. Paired fins, in ichth., the lateral 
tractible, expansible, etc., pair. See the adjectives. fins, pectoral or ventral: distinguished from median or 
Double pair royal, four similar cards, as four kings. vertical fins. 
pajamas (pa-ja'mSz), n.j>l. [Also paijamas, py- 
jamas; < Hind, pdejdmd, in popular use paijdmd, 
pdjdmd, pajdmd, drawers (see def.), Ut. 'leg- 
garments,' < pde (< Pers. pai), foot, leg (= E. 
foot), + jama, garment.] Loose drawers or 
trousers, usually of silk or silk and cotton, tied 
round the waist with a cord, used by both sexes 
in India, and adopted from the Mohammedans 
by Europeans as a chamber garment, in collo- 
quial or trade use the term is sometimes extended to In- 
clude also covering for the upper part of the body. 
pajero, . [S. Amer.] A kind of small spot- 
ted wild cat of South America, Felii pajeros : 
sometimes taken as a generic name of the same : 
same AS pampas-cat. 
pajockt, n. [Also (Sc.) peajoek; < pea? (Sc. 
pae), earlier po, pa, a peacock, + Jock?, Sc. 
tain games, as three kings or three queens. 
Hath that great pair-royal 
Of adamantine sisters late made trial 
Of some new trade? Quartet, Emblems, v. 7. 
On a pair-royal do I wait in death : 
My sovereign, as his liegeman ; on my mistress, 
As a devoted servant ; and on Ithoclea, 
As if no brave, yet no unworthy enemy. 
Ford, Broken Heart, v. 2. 
The game Is counted ... by fifteens, sequences, pairs, 
and pairialx, according to the numbers appertaining to the 
partitions occupied by the half-pence. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 399. 
There goes out a pair of shears*, there is little or no 
Luna. Thou thyself art a wicked villain, despite of all 
grace. 
First Gent. Well, there went but a pair of shears between 
>"* Shak., M. for M., I. 2. 28. 
Then 
former 
One who impairs or injures. 
Enviouse mennis sein that I am a peirer of hooll scrip- 
turis. Wydif, Prol. to James. 
pairialt, n. Same as pair royal (which see, un- 
der pair 1 ). 
pairing 1 (par'ing), n. [Verbal n. of pair 1 , r.] 
In deliberative assemblies, a practice by which 
two members belonging to opposite parties 
agree that both shall be absent for a speci- 
fied time, or that both shall abstain from vot- 
ing on a particular question, so that a vote is 
nullified on each side. Also called pairing off. 
pairingSf (par'ing), n. [< ME. peyringe; verbal 
n. of pair', r.] Impairment; injury. 
What profltitb it to a man If he wlnne al the world, and 
do peyringe to his soule? Wycl\f, Mark viil. 88. 
pairing-time (par'ing-tim), n. The time when 
animals, as birds, pair for ' 
quotation from Hamlet considered by many 
commentators to mean ' a peacock.' 
For thou dost know, O Damon dear. 
This realm dismantled was 
Of Jove himself ; and now reigns here 
A very, very pajock. 
Shak., Hamlet, ill. 2. 296. 
Pajock it certainly equivalent to peacock. I have often 
heard the lower classes in the North of Scotland call the 
peacock the "peajock"; and their almost invariable name 
for the turkey-cock Is " bubbly-jock." 
Dyce, quoted in Fumess's Hamlet, p. 26S. 
Pajonism (paj'on-izm), n. [< Pajon (see def.) 
+ -ism. ] The system of doctrines promulgated 
by Claude Pajon, a French Protestant clergy- 
man of the seventeenth century, who denied all 
immediate and special interferences by God in 
either the course of events or the spiritual life 
/'air and couple properly express two individuals 
or unities naturally or habitually going together or mak- 
-meat. Cf. impairment.] Impairment; 
injury ; damage. 
., appar. < pak, pack, + -aid, 
var. of -ard.] A pack ; burden. 
