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Pair :: Pair (n.) 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.].

Thane :: Thane (n.) A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place..

Rusty :: Rusty (superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect..

Disused :: Disused (imp. & p. p.) of Disus.

Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning..

Disusage :: Disusage (n.) Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse.

Angelot :: Angelot (n.) An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused..

Use :: Use (v. i.) To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between use to, and used to..

Disuse :: Disuse (v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.

Disacquaintance :: Disacquaintance (n.) Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance..

Obsolete :: Obsolete (a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances..

Post-captain :: Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was posted, in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse..

Astrolabe :: Astrolabe (n.) An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.

Obsoletism :: Obsoletism (n.) A disused word or phrase; an archaism.

Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.

Flat-cap :: Flat-cap (n.) A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London..

Inusitation :: Inusitation (n.) Want of use; disuse.

Disuse :: Disuse (n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse..

Desuetude :: Desuetude (n.) The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion..

Imprescriptible :: Imprescriptible (a.) Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription..

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