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Any agent capable of causing nervimotion. Dunglison.

ance, found in many animals at the inner angle, or beneath the lower lid, of the eye, and capable of being drawn across the eyeball; the third eyelid; the haw.

Capable of seeing at night; sharp-eyed. "Your night-eyed Tiberius." B. Jonson.

Capable of living without atmospheric oxygen; anaërobiotic.

Capable of living without light; as, nonphotobiotic plant cells, or cells which habitually live in darkness.

Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident.

Capable of being observed; worthy of notice; likely to attract observation; conspicous. A noticeable man, with large gray eyes. Wordsworth.

Capable of being nourished; as, the nourishable parts of the body. Grew.

between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value. Abstract number, Abundant number, Cardinal number, etc. See under Abstract, Abundant, etc. -- In numbers, in numbered parts; as, a book published in numbers.…

Capable of being numbered or counted.

Capable of having an oath administered to. [Obs.] Shak.

Worthy or capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable; remarkable. Sir. T. Browne. The difference is sufficiently observable. Southey. -- Ob*serv"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ob*serv"a*bly, adv.

Capable of being obtained.

Capable of being occasioned or caused. Barrow.

Having a valence of eight; capable of being combined with, exchanged for, or compared with, eight atoms of hydrogen; -- said of certain atoms or radicals.

Not divisible by 2 without a remainder; not capable of being evenly paired, one unit with another; as, 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, etc., are odd numbers. I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Shak.

Capable of being offered; suitable or worthy to be offered.

Capable of being omitted; that may be omitted.

Capable of enduring all things. [R.] Carlyle.

Beholding everything; capable of seeing all things; all-seeing. [R.] "Omnispective Power!" Boyse.