Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IM'PAIR
IM-PAINT'INGIM-PAIR', or IM-PAIR'MENT
IM'PAIR, a. [L. impar, unequal.]
In crystalography, when a different number of faces is presented by the prism, and by each summit; but the three numbers follow no law of progression. Cleaveland.
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