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Not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible; as, an impartible estate. Blackatone.

ent of the United States is inaugurated, the 4th of March in every year next after a year divisible by four.

Indivisible. [R.] Shak.

The state or property of being indivisible or inseparable; inseparability. Locke.

In an indivisible manner.

Incapable of being divided by cutting; indivisible.

Incapable of being severed; indivisible; inseparable. De Quincey.

An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.

Not divisible by 2 without a remainder; not capable of being evenly paired, one unit with another; as, 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, etc., are odd numbers. I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Shak.

Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible. "Make the molds partible." Bacon.

Odd; not even; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder. Contrasted with artiad.

An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge. When time's first point begun Made he all souls. Sir J. Davies.

A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each. Andr…

er in English antislavery agitation. -- Prime number (Arith.), a number which is exactly divisible by no number except itself or unity, as 5, 7, 11. -- Prime vertical (Astron.), the vertical circle which passes through the east and west points of the horizon. -- Prime-vertical dial, a dial in which the shadow is pro…

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure.

A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters. S. W. Williams.

Divisible into three parts.

he time of Cuvier and Baer . . . the whole animal kingdom has been universally held to be divisible into a small number of main divisions or types. Haeckel.

Indivisible. [Obs.] True courage and courtesy are undividual companions. Fuller.