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An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.

The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.

Capable of being succored or assisted; admitting of relief.

Able to suffer or endure; patient. [Obs.] "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer.

Capable of being overcome or conquered; surmountable. Antipathies are generally superable by a single effort. Johnson. -- Su"per*a*ble*ness, n. -- Su"per*a*bly, adv.

To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.

The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.

Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; redundant; as, superabundant zeal. -- Su`per*a*bun"dant*ly, adv.

Situated above the branchiæ; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.

Capable of being tempered. The fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals. Emerson.

bases; quadribasic; -- said of certain acids; thus, normal silicic acid, Si(OH)4, is a tetrabasic acid.

Same as Pyroboric.

An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc.

Of or pertaining to the Tetrabranchiata. -- n.

The quality or state of being tolerable. [R.] Fuller. Wordsworth.

ble, either physically or mentally. As may affect tionearth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable. Milton.

Capable of being tortured.

A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. -- worn by kings, consuls, and augurs. Dr. W. Smith.

Furnished with an entablature.

Same as Entablature.