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The quality of being inaudible; inaudibleness.

Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent. -- In*au"di*ble*ness, n. -- In*au"di*bly, adv.

Capable of being included.

Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away.

The quality or state of being incredible; incredibleness. Dryden.

Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead Acts xxvi. 8.

Incredibility.

In an incredible manner.

Not edible; not fit for food. -- In*ed`i*bil"i*ty (#), n.

Incapable of being eluded or evaded; unvoidable. Most pressing reasons and ineludible demonstrations. Glanvill.

Having the form of a funnel; pertaining to an infundibulum. Infundibulate Bryozoa (Zoöl.),a group of marine Bryozoa having a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk.

Having the form of a funnel or cone; funnel-shaped.

A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes.

Between the mandibles; interramal; as, the intermandibular space.

The quality of being invendible; invendibleness; unsalableness.

Not vendible or salable. Jefferson. -- In*vend"i*ble*ness, n.

Sportive; ridiculous; wanton. [Obs.] Tooker.

Sportive. [Obs.] -- Lu"di*bund*ness, n. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.

Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible. -- n.