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Capable of being frozen.

Accessible. [R.] Sidney.

riare to rub, break, or crumble into small pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray. cf. F. friable.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. "Friable ground." Evelyn. "Soft and friable texture." Paley. -- Fri'a-ble-ness, n.

Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.

Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.

Capable of being furbished.

Capable of being future; possible to occur. [R.] Not only to things future, but futurable. Fuller.

A cable. [Archaic] Chapman.

A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.

Capable of being obtained or reached. Sherwood.

Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. [R.] Godwin.

Capable of being gauged.

Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.

Capable of being gelded.

Capable of being generated or produced. Bentley.

Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge

That may be obtained. [R.]

Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient. Locke.

The quality of being governable; manageableness.

Capable of being granted.