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A warlike South African Kaffir tribe.

Capable of being melted.

; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.

Deserving of reward. [R.]

Same as Metabola.

A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment.

A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis.

An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.

Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.

Metabolism. [R.]

on or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism).

A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.

To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism.

Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiæ.

Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.

Capable of assuming a molten state; meltable; fusible. [Obs.]

Capable of being mooted.

Such as can be mounted.

The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability. Stillingfleet.…

to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South.