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Not refragable; not to be gainsaid or denied; not to be refuted or overthrown; unanswerable; incontestable; undeniable; as, an irrefragable argument; irrefragable evidence. -- Ir*ref"ra*ga*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*ref"ra*ga*bly, adv.

Capable of being levigated.

Such as can be litigated.

Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (C. fuliginosus), which is sooty black. [Also written mangaby.]

Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.

The quality or condition of being navigable; navigableness.

e of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river.

ple seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.

Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care. Each syllable being a prolongable quantity. Rush.

Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.

An idle, ragged person. Nares. Grose.

Capable of being refuted; refutable. [R.] -- Ref"ra*ga*ble*ness, n. [R.] -- Ref`*ra*ga*bil"i*ty (-b, n. [R.]

One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard. [R.] "Fie, you slugabed!" Shak.

Indefatigable. [Obs.] "Undefatigable pains." Camden.

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak.

The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.

Vagabondage.

To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

Vagabondage.

One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.