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Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.

Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart. The will was then ductile and pliant to right reason. South.…

Capable of being plowed; arable.

Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.

Capable of poisoning; poisonous. [Obs.] "Poisonable heresies." Tooker.

Capable of being polished.

Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monobasic acid; having more than one hydrogen atom capable of being replaced by acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; as, calcium hydrate and glycerin are polyacid bases.

Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic.

An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument.

A substance capable of crystallizing in several distinct forms; also, any one of these forms. Cf. Allomorph.

Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight. -- Pon"der*a*ble*ness, n.

Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses.

of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. Playfair.

Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine. South.

Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity.

That which is capable of being affirmed; reality. South.

Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong. With God…

tructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground, and capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies. -- Post and stall (Coal Mining), a mode of working in which pillars of coal are left to support the roof of the mine.

Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. [R.] J. Young.