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Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble. -- Dis*solv"a*ble*ness, n. Though everything which is compacted be in its own nature dissolvable. Cudworth. Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue. Sir I. Newton.

A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.

Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.

Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. Locke.

The quality of being distinguishable.

Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained. Blackstone.

Capable of being distributed. Sir W. Jones.

Capable of being diversified or varied. Boyle.

Capable of being divided; divisible.

Capable of being divorced.

Capable of being done. Carlyle.

Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

A word consisting of twelve syllables.

Capable of being tamed; tamable.

Tamableness.

That can be tamed. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Capable of being donated or given. [R.]

Capable of being doubted; questionable.

Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower. Blackstone.

Capable of being drained.