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A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.

A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock. Wright.

A simpleton; a dunce; a lout. [Colloq.]

Capable of being abrogated.

Capable of being begged.

xcite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. "Bugaboos to fright ye." Lloyd. But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate. Pope. The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray. S. B. Griffin. The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl. J. Burroug…

Capable of being sailed round. Ray.

Capable of being wearied or tired out. [R.] Glanvill.

Capable of being dug.

Easily tired. [Obs.] Bailey.

Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased. Coleridge.

In an immitigable manner.

The state of being indefatigable.

nremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application. "A constant, indefatigable attendance." South. Upborne with indefatigable wings. Milton.

Indefatigable quality; unweariedness; persistency. Parnell.

Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden.

Indefatigable. [Obs.] Daniel.

Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels. Drygen. -- In*nav"i*ga*bly, adv.

Unsearchable; inscrutable. [Obs.] So unsearchable the judgment and so investigable the ways thereof. Bale.

The quality or state of being irrefragable; incapability of being refuted.