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a. [ L. delebilis. See 1st Dele. ] Capable of being blotted out or erased. “An impression easily deleble.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enfeebled p. pr. & vb. n. Enfeebling ] [ OF. enfeblir, enfeiblir; pref. en- (L. in) + feble, F. faible, feeble. See Feeble. ] To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott.

Syn. -- To weaken; debilitate; enervate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as debilitated, 2.
Syn. -- debilitated, infirm, seedy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of weakening; enervation; weakness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Feebler superl. Feeblest ] [ OE. feble, OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to be wept over, lamentable, wretched, fr. flere to weep. Cf. Foible. ] 1. Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion. “A lady's feeble voice.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make feble; to enfeeble. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall that victorious hand be feebled here? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacillating; imbecile. “comfort the feeble-minded.” 1 Thess. v. 14.

-- Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. severe mental deficiency.
Syn. -- amentia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. [ 1913 Webster ]

That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Feeble, a character in the Second Part of Shakespeare's “King Henry IV., ” to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet “forcible.” ] Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Prof. Ayton ] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Enfeeble. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Moebles. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ OE., fr. OF. moeble, mueble, movable, from L. mobilis. ] Movables; furniture; -- also used in the singular (moeble). [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A bleeding at the nose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The yarrow. See Yarrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. treble threefold, OF. treble, treible, L. triplus. See Triple. ] 1. Threefold; triple. [ 1913 Webster ]

A lofty tower, and strong on every side
With treble walls. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) (a) Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound. Bacon. (b) Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Trebly; triply. [ Obs. ] J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ “ It has been said to be a corruption of triplum [ Lat. ], a third part, superadded to the altus and bassus (high and low).” Grove. ] (Mus.) The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This is sometimes called the first treble, to distinguish it from the second treble, or alto, which is sung by lower female voices. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trebled p. pr. & vb. n. Trebling. ] 1. To make thrice as much; to make threefold. “Love trebled life.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter in a treble key; to whine. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He outrageously
(When I accused him) trebled his reply. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become threefold. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being treble; as, the trebleness of tones. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]