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Capability or liableness to be discerped. [R.] Wollaston.

One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about

The quality of being discoverable. [R.] Carlyle.

To disqualify. [R.]

The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.

The state of being disreputable. [R.]

Want of respectability. Thackeray.

The act of bursting or springing apart. [R.] Boyle.

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity. Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images. Stillingfleet.

Want of sociability; unsociableness. Bp. Warburton.

The quality of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.

Capacity of being dissolved; solubility. Richardson.

The quality or capacity of being distensible. [R.]

The quality or capacity of being diversifiable. Earle.

The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation. Divisibility . . . is a primary attribute of matter. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who performs little though professing much. [Colloq.] Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.

Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility. To persons of docibility, the real character may be easily taught in a few days. Boyle. The docibleness of dogs in general. Walton.

Willingness to be taught; tractableness. The humble docility of little children is, in the New Testament, represented as a necessary preparative to the reception of the Christian faith. Beattie.

The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.