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Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.

Capable of two meanings. An amphibolous sentence is one that is capable of two meanings, not from the double sense of any of the words, but from its admitting of a double construction; e. g., "The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose." Whately.

ior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser.

Of extent of capacity or intellectual powers. "Amplitude of mind." Milton. "Amplitude of comprehension." Macaulay.

Capable of being amused.

Same as Amice, a hood or cape.

Capable of rendering insensible; as, anæsthetic agents.

To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.

A substance incapable of being electrified by friction. Faraday.

An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants. Morin.

aining the dip of strata. -- Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. -- Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines. -- External angles, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or lengthened. -- Facial angle. See under Fac…

An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.

Capable of being annihilated.

ed by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital.

A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example.

Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson.

A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius.

uced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

Capable of blunting the venereal appetite. -- n.