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Capable of being doubted; questionable.

Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower. Blackstone.

Capable of being drained.

Capable of being dramatized.

Capable of being drawn.

Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.

Capable of being drawn out [R.] Feltham.

Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals. Dryden. -- Duc"tile*ly, adv. -- Duc"tile*ness, n.

A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the Troughton level, from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the Gavatt level.…

Capable of being duped.

Having a valence or combining power of two; capable of being substituted for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen; as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements. See Valence.

Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.

Capable of being educated. "Men are educable." M. Arnold.

Capable of being educed.

Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable. Barrow.

Capable of being effaced.

Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible. Sir T. Browne.

One who is capable of active service. He assembled his army -- 20,000 effectives -- at Corinth. W. P. Johnston.

Capable of effervescing.

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile. Effete results from virile efforts. Mrs. Browning If they find the old governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new on…