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346 words match “CABLE”

PERFORMABLE a.
Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.
PITIFUL a.
To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Shak.
PLACABILITY n.
The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.
POSER n.
One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact. Bacon.
PRACTICABILITY n.
The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility. "The practicability of such a project." Stewart.
PREDICABILITY n.
The quality or state of being predicable, or affirmable of something, or attributed to something. Reid.
PRETERNATURAL a.
the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a preternatural stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor. This vile and preternatural temper of mind. South.…
PRETTY a.
Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
PROJECT n.
An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
QUALITY n.
makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman.…
QUANTITY n.
ished, or measured; especially (Math.), anything to which mathematical processes are applicable.
RANGE n.
See Range of cable, below. Range of accommodation (Optics), the distance between the near point and the far point of distinct vision, -- usually measured and designated by the strength of the lens which if added to the refracting media of the eye would cause the rays from the near point to appear as if they came from t…
RELEVANT a.
Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand; pertinent; applicable. Close and relevant arguments have very little hold on the passions. Sydney Smith.
REVOCABILITY n.
The quality of being revocable; as, the revocability of a law.
RIDE v.
fast. To ride easy (Naut.), to lie at anchor without violent pitching or straining at the cables. -- To ride hard (Naut.), to pitch violently. -- To ride out. (a) To go upon a military expedition. [Obs.] Chaucer. (b) To ride in the open air. [Colloq.] -- To ride to hounds, to ride behind, and near to, the hounds in h…
RODSMAN n.
One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party. G. W. Cable.
ROUND prep.
encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass. The serpent Error twines round human hearts. Cowper. Round about, an emphatic form for round or about. "Moses . . . set them [The elders] round about the tabernacle." Num. xi. 24. -- To come round, to gain…
RUNT n.
A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously. Before I buy a bargain of such runts, I'll buy a college for bears, and live among 'em. Beau. & Fl.
SAG v.
by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.…
SALUBRITY n.
alubrity of the air, of a country, or a climate. "A sweet, dry small of salubrity." G. W. Cable.
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