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Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel. The powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities. Shak.

That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.

Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. "Man's practical understanding." South. "For all practical purposes." Macaulay.

Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.)

Capable of being determined beforehand. Coleridge.

Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable.

Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort. [R.] Cotgrave.

Capable of being seized.

Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle.

Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not presentable in such a gown.

Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties. The latter term, presentative faculty, I use . . . in contrast and correlation to a "representative faculty." Sir W. Hamilton.

Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.

Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.

or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other capable for igniting a charge of gunpowder.

Capable of being proved. [Obs.]

Capable of being procured; obtainable. Boyle.

Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended. -- Pro*du"ci*ble*ness, n.

Capable of being produced; producible.

Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.

ree, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.