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The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.

In a changeable manner.

Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.

That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose. -- Change"less*ness, n.

One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies. Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft. Spenser. The changeling [a substituted writing] never known. Shak.

One who changes or alters the form of anything.

To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.

Exchanged.

Within a lymphatic vessel.

g or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.

The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.

Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged. The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of General Howe. Marshall.

By way of exchange.

One who exchanges; one who practices exchange. Matt.

Unchangeableness. [Obs.] Kenrick.

To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly offices and services. I shall interchange My waned state for Henry's regal crown. Shak.

The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.

Admitting of exchange or mutual substitution. "Interchangeable warrants." Bacon.

Mutual transfer; exchange. [Obs.] Shak.