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Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic. Gibbs.

good apples. The early fame of Gratian was equal to that of the most celebrated princes. Gibbon.

ty possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.

Capable of being touched; tangible. -- Touch"a*ble*ness, n.

beyond or below the red rays; as, the ultrated rays of the spectrum, which are less refrangible than the red.

Lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end; -- said of rays more refrangible than the extreme violet rays of the spectrum.

Capable of being understood; intelligible. Chillingworth.

In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. J. Hawes.

The agile gibbon; -- called also ungka-pati, and ungka-etam. See Gibbon.

to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond. Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view. Prior.

e color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.

g, as of an amphitheater. Sixty-four vomitories . . . poured forth the immense multitude. Gibbon.

While. [Archaic] Whilst the emperor lay at Antioch. Gibbon. The whilst, in the meantime; while. [Archaic.] Shak.

windowed in great Rome and see Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down His corrigible neck Shak.

A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm. Swift.

One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor. "A thriving wooer." Gibber.

The agile, or silvery, gibbon; -- called also camper. See Gibbon. [Written also wow-wow.]

To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.

The crowned gibbon (Hylobates pileatus), native of Siam, Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in its habits, and has very long arms. the males are dark brown or blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark hair, and usually with a white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, w…

A dirigible balloon of the rigid type, consisting of a cylindrical trussed and covered frame supported by internal gas cells, and provided with means of propulsion and control. It was first successfully used by Ferdinand Count von Zeppelin.