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A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminosæ. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope.

Capable of being; visible. "The aspectable world." Ray. "Aspectable stars." Mrs. Browning.

Capable of being assailed.

Capable of being assaulted.

Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.

The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness. "The associability of feelings." H. Spencer.

Capable of being associated or joined. We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer.

Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims. -- As*sump"tive*ly, adv. Assumptive arms (Her.), originally, arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College. Percy Smith.…

To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun. [Obs.] Spenser.

To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. [Obs.] Enough, captain; you have astonished him. [Fluellen had struck Pistol]. Shak. The very cramp-fish [i. e., torpedo] . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland.

To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. [Archaic] The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking. Chaucer.

A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.

Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable.

A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation. Dunglison.

which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. Atrabiliary arteries, capsules, and veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins.

ce; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery. Incapable of attaching a sensible man. Miss Austen. God . . . by various ties attaches man to man. Cowper.

Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.

Capable of being attacked.

Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object. The highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life. Addison.

ct of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder. Abbott.