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Capable or susceptible of being investigated; admitting research. Hooker.

re and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.

The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.

Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.

One who searches diligently into a subject.

The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing. He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. Sir W. Raleigh.

Investing. [R.] Mir. for Mag.

The act of investing, or the state of being invested.

One who invests.

Investiture; investment. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

Any very hard rock.

Having equal pressure. Isopiestic lines, lines showing, in a diagram, the relations of temperature and volume, when the elastic force is constant; -- called also isobars.

poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.

A deed; an action; a gest. [Obs.] The jests or actions of princes. Sir T. Elyot.

A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool. This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow.

Given to jesting; full of jokes.

Sportive; not serious; fit for jests. He will find that these are no jesting matters. Macaulay .

In a jesting manner.

of Cast. [Obs.]

A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species.