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In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back. Walker.

The art of declining and conjugating words.

An intestinal concretion.

A fossil insect.

The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.

One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler.

The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights. A footing of equality with nobles. Macaulay.

The quality or state of being erectile.

Erythrolein.

The quality of being essential; the essential part. Jer. Taylor.

The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.

The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.

The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self- nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure. Syd. Soc. Lex.

The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.

The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

Capability of being exhausted. I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill.

A sudden springing or leaping out. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness. [R.] Paley.

The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air.

The quality or state of being suitable for exportation. To increase the exportability of native goods. J. P. Peters.