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Capable of being rescinded.

Worthy of reward. -- Re*ward"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*ward"a*bly, adv.

Suitable for riding; as, a ridable horse; a ridable road.

Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech. We have taken a terrible roundabout road. Burke.

The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.

The sand fluke (b). [Prov. Eng.]

Capable of being sounded.

Incapable of being aided. "Her unaidable estate." Shak.

Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.

Infinitely. [Obs.] I am . . . unboundably beholding to you. J. Webster (1607).

Capable of being understood; intelligible. Chillingworth.

Not able or likely to succeed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

e metropolitan . . . grants letters of administration, such administration is not, but voidable by sentence. Ayliffe.

Capable of being welded.

Capable of being wielded.

Capable of being wounded; vulnerable. [R.] Fuller.

Disposed to yield or comply. [R.] -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. [R.] Bp. Hall.

expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

ions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. "A laudable account of the city of London." Howell.

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act. This statute . . . in affirmance of the common law. Bacon.