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The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. Locke.

Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy. -- Ad*min"is*tra`tive*ly, adv.

The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.

Affability.

Inability to swallow.

Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aërial navigation.

Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.

As used by some, inability to read aloud, due to brain disease.

al condition of an alien; alienage. The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent.

Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.

The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.

The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.

The quality of being amiable; amiability.

The quality of being amicable; amicability.

Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.

thout legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. See Illustration in Appendix.

Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul. Heb. vi. 19.

The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster.

Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.

Probability; likelihood. [Obs.] There is that which hath no appearance. Bacon.