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Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n.

Capable of being masticated.

Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent. -- Match"a*ble*ness, n. Sir Walter Raleigh . . . is matchable with the best of the ancients. Hakewill.

Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.

Capable of being medicated; admitting of being cured or healed.

Capable of being melted.

A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. We have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office. Rom. xii. 4.

Capable of being mended.

Capable of being measured; measurable.

Capable of being bought or sold. [Obs.]

A tissue of growing cells, or cells capable of further division.

A theoretical aggregation of molecules constituting a structural particle of protoplasm, capable of increase or diminution without change in chemical nature.

Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Capable of being mixed; mixable; as, water and alcohol are miscible in all proportions. Burke.

Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.

Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance. We bend the bow, or wing the missile dart. Pope.

Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being mixed.

Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile." Skelton.

Capable of being modified; liable to modification.