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Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.; as:

s were agricultural, and they were noted for large, communal houses, palisaded towns, and ability to organize, as well as for skill in war. --n.

The quality or state of being irresolvable; irresolvability.

Want of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability.

Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.

Irritability.

A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.

ses, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.

ilton. What the land is, whether it be fat or lean. Num. xiii. 20. Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something. Shak.

c. All bitters are poison, and act by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability. Coleridge.

Quality of being liable; liability.

A person of small impotance or mental ability. [Colloq., Chiefly U. S.]

Having probability; affording probability; probable; likely. [Likely is more used now.] Shak. But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices. South. Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules. Clarendon.

Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude. Tennyson.

Likelihood; probability.

Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; -- followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to rain.

cted; as, our views of nature are very limited. Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called on to contribute beyond the amount of his shares. [Eng.] Mozley & W.

A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus.

ak (Bot.), a species of oak (Quercus virens), growing in the Southern States, of great durability, and highly esteemed for ship timber. In California the Q. chrysolepis and some other species are also called live oaks. -- Live ring (Engin.), a circular train of rollers upon which a swing bridge, or turntable, rests, a…

The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.