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Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips.

One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.

se (Mil.), to stand in a comfortable attitude in one's place in the ranks. -- With ease, easily; without much effort.

Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.

Easy or easily. [Obs.] "Eath to move with plaints." Fairfax.

The clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation. The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer. Clarendon.

Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.

a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution. Elastic bitumen. (Min.) See Elaterite. -- Elastic curve. (a) (Geom.) The curve made by a thin elastic rod fixed horizontally at one end and loaded at th…

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.

The act of enforcing; compulsion. He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them. Sir W. Raleigh. Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her. Shak.

Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.

To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortunes with equanimity.

Of an even, composed frame of mind; of a steady temper; not easily elated or depressed. Bp. Gauden.

mind is much more to be regarded. Steele. The gay young gentleman whose erudition sat so easily upon him. Macaulay.

slip away; -- sometimes with from. "Evading from perils." Bacon. Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. Milton.

Equable; not easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self- possessed; as, an even temper.

Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.

Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered. The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. Milton.

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke .