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Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.

The quality of being assimilable. [R.] Coleridge.

That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.

The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness. "The associability of feelings." H. Spencer.

Capable of being associated or joined. We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer.

Associability.

That may be assumed.

By way of assumption.

An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.

A kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the Moors. Croly.

Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable.

A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. I. Disraeli.

Affected with melancholy; atrabilious. Arbuthnot.

Melancholy; atrabilious.

Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. Atrabiliary arteries, capsules, and veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins.…

Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. Dunglision. A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. Lowell. He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful. Froude.

See Atabal.

Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.

Capable of being attacked.

The quality of being attainable; attainbleness.