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The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring.

A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying, in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie.

The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.

Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

That may or should be deprecated. Paley.

Despicableness. [R.] Carlyle.

Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.

The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.

Capability of being educated.

Capable of being educated. "Men are educable." M. Arnold.

Capable of being eradicated.

erving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper. "Persons excommunicable ." Bp. Hall. What offenses are excommunicable Kenle.

explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation. It is not explicable upon any grounds. Burke.

Quality of being explicable.

Capable of being extricated. Sir W. Jones.

A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax.

A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top. He hailed a cruising hansom . . . " 'Tis the gondola of London," said Lothair. Beaconsfield.

Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.