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Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock. Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybr…

The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.

To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.

One who hybridizes.

Same as Hybrid.

A type of bridge for small spans in which the floor girders are rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel legs, driven into the round as piling, or resting on mudsills.

A hybrid whose parents differ by three pairs of contrasting Mendelian characters.

Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole.

To free from the bridle; to set loose.

Loosed from the bridle, or as from the bridle; hence, unrestrained; licentious; violent; as, unbridled passions. "Unbridled boldness." B. Jonson. Lands deluged by unbridled floods. Wordsworth. -- Un*bri"dled*ness, n. Abp. Leighton.

See Water table.

A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.

See under Bridge.

To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. Tylor.

Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian. Jer. Taylor.

In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. Carlyle.

See Abridge. [Obs.]

To epitomize; to abridge. Franklin.