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ction in all parts, with a lower steeper slope and an upper and flatter one, so that each gable is pentagonal in form.

A gable. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

In an immitigable manner.

The state of being indefatigable.

Indefatigableness; unweariedness. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

The quality or state of being irrefragable; incapability of being refuted.

hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable.

A female mulatto. G. W. Gable.

The quality or condition of being navigable; navigableness.

navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.

Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.

ed to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc. Some renowned metropolis With glistering spires and pinnacles around. Milton.…

A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.

e, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels. [Written also key.]

ard over the turned-up edge of the next sheet. -- Saddle roof (Arch.), a roof having two gables and one ridge; -- said of such a roof when used in places where a different form is more common; as, a tower surmounted by a saddle roof. Called also saddleback roof. -- Saddle shell (Zoöl.), any thin plicated bivalve shae…

Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river.

A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable. [Obs.] Pepys.

A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.

A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.

e shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. Chaucer. Strand birds. (Zoöl.) See Shore birds, under Shore. -- Strand plover (Zoöl.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover. -- Strand wolf (Zoöl.), the brown hyena.