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Capable of being poured or spread round. "Circumfusile gold." Pope.

Capable of being sailed round. Ray.

Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

Capable of being circumscribed.

Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.

Capable of being circumstantiated. [Obs.] Jer Taylor.

A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.

Capable of being cited.

including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider.

il; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see. A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and though the bishopric has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet remaineth a city. Blackstone When Gorges constituted York a city…

Capable of being civilized.

Capable of being claimed.

ove of sand, where you may not take many clampes, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. Capt. John Smith (1616). Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a coclke; it lieth under the sand. Wood (1634).

Capable of being classed.

Capable of being classified.

htly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.

The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter

Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.

Capable of cleaving or being divided.

t; the greatest degree. We must look higher for the climax of earthly good. I. Taylor. To cap the climax, to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. [Colloq.]