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Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling. -- Stul*til"o*quent*ly, adv.

Foolish talk; silly discource; babbling. Jer. Taylor.

Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages.

See Substyle.

Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.

To make thin or rare. [Obs.] Harvey. -- Sub`til*i*a"tion, n. [Obs.] Boyle.

The quality or state of being subtile; subtility; subtlety. The high orthodox subtilism of Duns Scotus. Milman.

Subtilty. [R.]

The act of making subtile.

To refine; to spin into niceties; as, to subtilize arguments. Nor as yet have we subtilized ourselves into savages. Burke.

One who subtilizes.

The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.

Done by stitching. [R.] Boswell.

In a sweaty manner.

nse, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." Beaumont. "Tactile qualities." Sir M. Hale. Tactile sense (Physiol.), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different p…

The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.

In a tasty manner.

Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics. Textile cone (Zoöl.), a beautiful cone shell (Conus textilis) in which the colors are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth.

In a thirsty manner.

Carefully; properly; becomingly. [Obs.] A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret [greeted]. Chaucer.