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Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended. Bacon.

Useless; unprofitable. [Obs.] Bacon.

Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.

Not retractile.

The fine, soft fiber of the bromeliaceous plant Bromelia sylvestris.

See Jauntily.

In a jaunty manner.

An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards.

Same as Lacertian.

Like or belonging to the Lacertilia.

A leguminous plant of the genus Ervum (Ervum Lens), of small size, common in the fields in Europe. Also, its seed, which is used for food on the continent.

In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.

In a lusty or vigorous manner.

A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.

and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in different parts of the country, for the use of dealers who sell to them. -- Mercantile marine, th…

fully. Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Col. i. 29.

With mist; darkly; obscurely.

, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve. [R.]

Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds.

Capability of motion; contractility.