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Of or pertaining to Muzarabs; as, the Muzarabic liturgy. [Written also Mozarabic.]

Capable of being narrated or told. [Obs.]

Capable of being numbered or counted.

Capable of being offered; suitable or worthy to be offered.

Practicable. [Obs.]

A South American monkey of the genus Callithrix, esp. C. Moloch.

Capable of being ordered; tractable. [R.] Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.

To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.

Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance (C3N2H2O3); -- also called oxalyl urea.

A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. C. S. Minot.

Of or pertaining to the parablast; as, the parablastic cells.

Procurable. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

tion y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.

Similitude; comparison.

Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction.

By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.

Resembling a parabola in form.

The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term. [Obs.]

A narrator of parables.

The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.