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Capable of cultivation. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant. [Written also marabu.]

A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.

Moderate; temperate; not excessive. Of his diet measurable was he. Chaucer. -- Meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Meas"ur*a*bly, adv. Yet do it measurably, as it becometh Christians. Latimer.

Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.

The quality or state of being memorable.

a*ble*ness, n. -- Mem"o*ra*bly, adv. Surviving fame to gain, Buy tombs, by books, by memorable deeds. Sir J. Davies.

The quality of being mensurable.

Capable of being measured; measurable.

The quality or state of being mensurable; measurableness.

One who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders. [Obs.] Bacon.

A genus of plants. See Four-o'clock.

Native sodium sulphate; Glauber's salt.

Wonderful; admirable. [Obs.] Shak.

Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden.

The state or quality of being miserable.

In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. They were miserably entertained. Sir P. Sidney. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South.

Modeate; temperate. [Obs.]

Same as Muzarab, Muzarabic.

nt of the Moors in Spain, and having a liturgy and ritual of their own. [Written also Mozarab, Mostarab.] Brande & C.