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Capability of being generated. Johnstone.

Capable of being generated or produced. Bentley.

The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.

hdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven. Grab hag, at fairs, a bag or box holding small articles which are to be drawn, without being seen, on payment of a small sum. [Colloq.] -- Grab game, a theft committed by grabbing or snatching a purse or other piece of property. [C…

One who seizes or grabs.

To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden.

Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer. Sherwood.

Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak.

The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction.

In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor. The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him. Shak. Why did I not more honorably starve Dryden.

Not lacerable; incapable of being torn or rent. [Obs.]

Capable of illustration. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being immeasurable; immensurability.

Incapble of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast. Of depth immeasurable. Milton.

The state or quality of being immeasurable. Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. F. W. Robertson.

In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth.

Not memorable; not worth remembering. Johnson.

The quality of being immensurable.

Immeasurable. What an immensurable space is the firmament. Derham.

Quality of being impenetrable.