n. The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. [ R. ] Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being acquired. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being administered;
n. [ L. admirabilitac. ] Admirableness. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. admirabilis: cf. F. admirable. ]
In man there is nothing admirable but his ignorance and weakness. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an admirable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Adorableness. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. adorabilis, fr. adorare: cf. F. adorable. ]
The adorable Author of Christianity. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an adorable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. altérabilité. ] The quality of being alterable; alterableness. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. altérable. ] Capable of being altered. [ 1913 Webster ]
Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an alterable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being ameliorated. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Fit for anchorage. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Prob. ultimately fr. Heb. arabah a desert, the name employed, in the Old Testament, to denote the valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea. Ar. Arab, Heb. arabi, arbi, arbim: cf. F. Arabe, L. Arabs, Gr. &unr_;. ] One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
Street Arab,
‖n.
The araba of the Turks has its sides of latticework to admit the air Balfour (Cyc. of India). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ F. arabesque, fr. It. arabesco, fr. Arabo Arab. ] A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ It was employed in Roman imperial ornamentation, and appeared, without the animal figures, in Moorish and Arabic decorative art. (See Moresque.) The arabesques of the Renaissance were founded on Greco-Roman work. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
a. Ornamented in the style of arabesques. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]
Arabian bird,
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
Gum arabic.
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. --
n.
n. (Chem.) A sugar of the composition
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 ]
a. [ F. arable, L. arabilis, fr. arare to plow, akin to Gr. &unr_;, E. ear, to plow. See Earable. ] Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Arable land; plow land. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The country of Arabia. [ Archaic & Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. arbitrable, fr. L. arbitrari. See Arbitrate, v. t. ] Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable. [ Archaic ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L. asarum + bacca a berry. See Asarone. ] (Bot.) An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europæum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. I. Disraeli. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Melancholy; atrabilious. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
Atrabiliary arteries,
capsules, and
veins
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. Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. --
v. t. To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being bored. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to
v. i. [ D. brabbelen to talk confusedly. √95. Cf. Blab, Babble. ] To clamor; to contest noisily. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]