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Obstinate; intractable. Things are as sullen as we are. Tillotson.

(from the air), steam, and nitric fumes. It attacks and dissolves many metals and other intractable substances, sets free most acids from their salts, and is used in the manufacture of hydrochloric and nitric acids, of soda, of bleaching powders, etc. It is also powerful dehydrating agent, having a strong affinity for…

Capable of being touched; tangible. [R.] "They [women] being created to be both tractable and tactable." Massinger.

Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.

The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh.

The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.

Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. [Obs.] " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.

Tractable; moderate. [Obs.] By nature debonaire and tretable. Chaucer.

constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing. "His uneasy station." Milton. A sour, untractable nature makes him uneasy to those who approach him. Addison.

The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame. When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and pride, then vituperation comes upon him. Donne.