VOLUBLE

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.

2.
a.

Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue. [Cassio,] a knave very voluble. Shak.

3.
a.

Changeable; unstable; fickle. [Obs.]

4.
a.

Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants. Voluble stem (Bot.), a stem that climbs by winding, or twining, round another body. -- Vol"u*ble*ness, n. -- Vol"u*bly, adv.


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