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a. Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being added. “Addible numbers.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ascendibilis. ] Capable of being ascended; climbable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which may be heard. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Visibles are swiftlier carried to the sense than audibles. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. audibilis, fr. L. audire, auditum, to hear: cf. Gr. &unr_; ear, L. auris, and E. ear. ] Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

adv. So as to be heard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A roundabout or indirect way. [ Jocular ] Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. able to be understood. Opposite of incomprehensible. [ Narrower terms: clear, distinct ] Also See: clear, explicable, fathomable, intelligible.
Syn. -- comprehensible. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality of being corrodible. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being corroded; corrosible. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. crédibilité. ] The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. credibilis, fr. credere. See Creed. ] Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible. Dampier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being credible; worthiness of belief; credibility. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Admitting descent; capable of being descended. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That may descend from an ancestor to an heir. “A descendant estate.” Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To dip. [ Prov. Eng. ] Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. A child's game, played with dib bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. di- + basic. ] (Chem.) Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the case of certain acids dibasic and divalent are not synonymous; as, tartaric acid is tetravalent and dibasic, lactic acid is divalent but monobasic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The property or condition of being dibasic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dibble. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Dibble, v. i. ] A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dibbled p. pr. & vb. n. Dibbling ] [ Freq. of Prov. E. dib, for dip to thrust in. See Dip. ] To dib or dip frequently, as in angling. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble. [ 1913 Webster ]

The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick at the time by the tiny hoofs of sheep. H. Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground for seed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Prosody) a foot of two short (unstressed-unstressed) syllables.
Syn. -- pyrrhic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a cephalopod having two gills; a member of the Dibranchiata.
Syn. -- dibranchiate, dibranchiate mollusk. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish).
Syn. -- Dibranchiata, subclass ta, Dibranchia, subclass Dibranchia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; gills. ] (Zool.) An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having two gills. -- n. One of the Dibranchiata. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East. Johnston. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small amount of money. [ PJC ]

3. A right or claim, such as the right of use, or of first choice; as, I have dibs on the binoculars after Jim is finished.. [ PJC ]

n. A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. di- + butyl. ] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the alkane series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. edibilis, fr. edere to eat. See Eat. ] Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n. Anything edible. [ 1913 Webster ]

Edible bird's nest. See Bird's nest, 2. --
Edible crab (Zoöl.), any species of crab used as food, esp. the American blue crab (Callinectes hastatus). See Crab. --
Edible frog (Zoöl.), the common European frog (Rana esculenta), used as food. --
Edible snail (Zoöl.), any snail used as food, esp. Helix pomatia and H. aspersa of Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Suitableness for being eaten. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being eluded; evadible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being evaded. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as expandable.
Syn. -- expandable, expansible. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Similar to, or in the style of, the poem “Hudibras, ” by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hyo- + mandibular. ] (Anat.) Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes. -- n. The hyomandibular bone or cartilage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being impeded or hindered. [ R. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being imperdible. [ Obs. ] Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. im- not + L. perdere to destroy. ] Not destructible. [ Obs. ] -- Im*per"di*bly, adv. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]