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Capable of being terminated or bounded; limitable. -- Ter"mi*na*ble*ness, n. Terminable annuity, an annuity for a stated, definite number of years; -- distinguished from life annuity, and perpetual annuity.

Having or making the sound of a bell; tinkling.

A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells. Poe.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the tinkling of a bell; having a tinkling sound; tintinnabular. De Quincey.

A bell; also, a set or combination of bells or metal plates used as a musical instrument or as a toy.

Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.

of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon.

us; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful. -- Tun"a*ble*ness, n. -- Tun"a*bly, adv. And tunable as sylvan pipe or song. Milton.

Inability. [Obs.]

elpless; 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.

Disabled. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Inability. [Obs.] Hales.

Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole.

Not absorbable; specifically (Physiol.), not capable of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood; as, the unabsorbable portion of food.

Inalienable; as, unalienable rights. Swift. -- Un*al"ien*a*bly, adv.

Not capable of being brought into harmony; irreconcilable. "Unatonable matrimony." [Obs.] Milton.

Not conscionable; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; inordinate; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size. Which use of reason, most reasonless and unconscionable, is the utmost that any tyrant ever pretended. Milton. His giantship is…

Not covenable; inconvenient. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Tim. iv. 7).

Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.

Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable; faultless; good; excellent; as, a man of most unexceptionable character. -- Un`ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`ex*cep"tion*a*bly, adv.