Search the Dictionary

A roundabout or indirect way. [Jocular] Goldsmith.

The qualityof being corrodible. [R.] Johnson.

Capable of being corroded; corrosible. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.

ted or believed; worthy of belief; entiled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker. A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible. Dampier.

The quality or state of being credible; worthness of belief; credibility. [R.] Boyle.

In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.

The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.

Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.

Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n.

Suitableness for being eaten.

Capable of being eluded; evadible.

Capable of being evaded. [R.]

Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.

Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.

Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes. -- n.

Capable of being impeded or hindered. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The state or quality of being imperdible. [Obs.] Derham.

Not destructible. [Obs.] -- Im*per"di*bly, adv. [Obs.]