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A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine. Hose carriage, cart, or truck, a wheeled vehicle fitted for conveying hose for extinguishing fires. -- Hose company, a company of men appointed to bring and manage…

Not persuasible; not to be moved by persuasion; inflexible; impersuadable. Dr. H. More. -- Im`per*sua`si*bil"i*ty, n.

Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding.

e persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge. "Inexorable equality of laws." Gibbon. "Death's inexorable doom." Dryden. You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrca…

The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Ch…

In an inflexible manner.

Inflexible. [R.] "Foes inflexive." Chapman.

Inflexible; unrelenting; as, an iron will.

Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.

e genus Isis, or family Isidæ, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea.

dered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. Milton. The bargeman that doth row with long and limber oar. Turbervile.

The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. Boyle.

Limp; flexible; flimsy. [Local, U. S.]

Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. Tennyson.

Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. Milton.

In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.

Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom. -- Lithe"some*ness, n.

e. Lithy tree (Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum Lantana); -- so named from its tough and flexible stem.

Soft; flexible. [Obs.] Spenser.