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Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation. -- Sat`u*ra*bil"i*ty, n.

Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus Scarabæus, or family Scarabæidæ, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species (Scarabæus sacer, and S. Egyptiorum).

Same as Scarab.

Of or pertaining to the family Scarabæidæ, an extensive group which includes the Egyptian scarab, the tumbleding, and many similar lamellicorn beetles.

A Lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped, and seasoned with butter, salt, and pepper. Halliwell.

atch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way. Bunyan.

The Manx shearwater.

That may be secured.

One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve.

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv. Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold. Boyle.

Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.

Capable of being severed. Encyc. Dict.

A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.

See Sperable.

Capable of being breathed; respirable. [Obs.] Nash.

Capable of being steered; dirigible.

A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.

Strabismus.

An instrument for measuring the amount of strabismus.