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Incapable of being spanned.

Incapable of being stanched, or stopped.

Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also loggerhead, race horse, and side wheel duck.

Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.

To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.

tensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to Ratitæ, or Dromæognathæ.

Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. Bp. Hall. -- Tame"less*ness, n.

dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protraced dancing to appropriate music. [Written also tarentism.]

ater that was made wine. John ii. 9. When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse. Gibbon.

Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar. As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor. De Quincey.

Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate constituent of matter. Ultimate analysis (Chem.), organic analysis. See under Organic. -- Ultimate belief. See under Belief. -- Ultimate ratio (Math.), the limiting value of a ratio, or that toward whic…

ving sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable for work; unable to bear fatigue. Sapless age and weak unable limbs. Shak.

Incapable of being aided. "Her unaidable estate." Shak.

Incapable of being atoned for; inexpiable.

Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.

Incapable. [Obs.] "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.

Incapable of being cleansed or cleaned.

Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events.

Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless; indomitable. Bp. Hall.