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Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty. I. Watts.

Capable of being inspired or drawn into the lungs; inhalable; respirable; admitting inspiration. Harvey.

tible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery. -- In`sus*cep`ti*bly adv.

Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified. Sir M. Hale.

Admitting of exchange or mutual substitution. "Interchangeable warrants." Bacon.

Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings. That wild interminable waste of waves. Grainger.

Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.

To allow to pass in; to admit. Glass in the window intromits light, without cold. Holder.

The act of admitting into or within. Hammond.

Capable or susceptible of being investigated; admitting research. Hooker.

Not admitting of being vitrified, or converted into glass. Kirwan.

Not admitting relief; incurable; hopeless.

Admitting no return; as, an irremeable way. [Obs.] Dryden.

iety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper. Jasper opal, a yellow variet…

wo things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe.

tion; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification. I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. Shak.

In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.

To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door. Master, knock the door hard. Shak. To knock down. (a) To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an assailant. (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or knock; to knock off. -- To knock in the head, or on the head, to stu…

ifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance. Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, knocker; say I'm sick, I'm dead. Pope.

To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.