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n. [ L. admirabilitac. ] Admirableness. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adorableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. altérabilité. ] The quality of being alterable; alterableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arabian bird, the phenix. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native of Arabia; an Arab. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Arabicus, fr. Arabia. ] Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arabic numerals or
figures, the nine digits, 1, 2, 3, etc., and the cipher 0. --
Gum arabic. See under Gum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The language of the Arabians. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Arabic is a Semitic language, allied to the Hebrew. It is very widely diffused, being the language in which all Moslems must read the Koran, and is spoken as a vernacular tongue in Arabia, Syria, and Northern Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to Arabia; Arabic. -- A*rab"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. (Chem.) A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mucilage, especially that made of gum arabic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. Arabisme. ] An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language. Stuart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. Arabiste. ] One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. I. Disraeli. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ LL. atrabilarius, fr. L. atra bilis black bile: cf. F. atrabilaire, fr. atrabile. ] Affected with melancholy; atrabilious. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Melancholy; atrabilious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. [ 1913 Webster ]

Atrabiliary arteries,
capsules, and
veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. Dunglision. [ 1913 Webster ]

A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carabus or family Carabidae. -- n. One of the Carabidae, a family of active insectivorous beetles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a family of nocturnal, terrestrial insects consisting of the ground beetles, which feed chiefly on other insects.
Syn. -- family Carabidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Mil.) A carbine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A carbineer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. commensurabilité. ] The quality of being commensurable. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a similarity allowing comparison; an approximate equivalence.
Syn. -- comparison, compare, equivalence. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of being curable; curableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The state or quality of being deflagrable. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Deplorableness. Stormonth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being discoverable. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. durabilitas. ] The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. [ 1913 Webster ]

A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. figurabilité. ] The quality of being figurable. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being generated. Johnstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being immeasurable; immensurability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being immensurable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. impénétrabilité. ] 1. Quality of being impenetrable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. impondérabilité. ] The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. inaltérabilité. ] The quality of being unalterable or unchangeable; permanence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incommensurabilité. ] The quality or state of being incommensurable. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incurabilité incurability, LL. incurabilitas negligence. ] The state of being incurable; irremediableness. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being indemonstrable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Freedom or exemption from error; infallibility. Eikon Basilike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inexorabilitas: cf. F. inexorabilité. ] The quality of being inexorable, or unyielding to entreaty. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Incapacity of being engendered or produced. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. innumerabilitas. ] State of being innumerable. Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inseparabilitas: cf. F. inséparabilité. ] The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparableness. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Math.) The quality of being integrable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Computers) The quality of being interoperable. Used of data structures or executable programs. [ PJC ]