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Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked. Shak.

Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction. -- At*tract"a*ble*ness, n.

Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.

The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.

Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.

Capable of augmentation. Walsh.

gins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).

the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

Capable of being authorized. Hammond.

he pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

Capable of self-nourishment; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, as opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.

Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate. Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. H…

Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.

Capable of being averted; preventable.

Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale.

One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.

To fly away; to escape; to exhale. [Obs.]

Capable of being avouched.

Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence. Donne.

e sphere which is perpendicular to the plane of the circle. Hutton. -- Axis of the Ionic capital (Arch.), a line passing perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the volute. -- Neutral axis (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression, exerted by the fibers…