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Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. [R.] Grew.

Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.

. A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 (e) (f) & (g).

Such as can be manifested.

Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Payable. [Scot.]

Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory; relishing.

Capable of being tested or proved.

Capable of being heated to or somewhat above 55º C. without loss of special properties; -- said of immune substances, etc.

Incontestable.

Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow. -- Un*sta"ble*ness, n. Chaucer. Unstable equilibrium. See Stable equilibrium, under Stable.

Detestable. "Pride, abhorrent as it is." I. Taylor.

Detestable. [R.]

To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. Let every man abide in the same calling. 1 Cor. vii. 20. Followed by by: To abide by. (a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. Fielding.

sing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed. Shak. -- Ac*curs"ed*ly, adv. -- Ac*curs"ed*ness, n.

An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. Prescott.

To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge. Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes. Shak.

Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.

Automatic stability; also, inherent stability. An aëroplane is inherently stable if it keeps in steady poise by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of self-operative mechanism.