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Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants. Boyle.

A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.

Capable of being retracted; retractile.

A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.]

Discoverable by scrutiny, inquiry, or critical examination. [R.] r. H. More.

Admitting of being shifted.

Suitable; befitting; proper. [Obs.] con.

Suitable. [Obs.] otgrave.

Sportiveness. [Obs.]

ce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.

A culture made by inoculating a solid medium, as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire. The growths are usually of characteristic form.

A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making "the way of the cross" (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c).

One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.

By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly. Bp. Parker.

The act of making firm; firm support; establishment. [R.] Jer. taylor. They serve for stabiliment, propagation, and shade. Derham.

To make stable; to establish. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution.

Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. Rogers.

The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer. Wharton.

A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.