Dictionary entry

Repair (4)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Re‐pair″, n. 1. Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.

Sunk down and sought repair

Of sleep, which instantly fell on me. Milton.

2. Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.