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The quality of being available; availableness.

Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea. [Obs.] Laws human are available by consent. Hooker.

Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. [Obs.]

In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.

rivilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons. "He's bailable, I'm sure." Ford.

To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.

To beslobber.

Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.

Flabellate on both sides.

Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.

In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

h (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion. Udall. And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. Tennyson.

A tattler; a telltale.

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber. B. Jonson.

A district on the west coast of Africa. Calabar bean, The of a climbing legumious plant (Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by t…

An alkaloid resembing physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean.

The fruit of the calabash tree.

A prison; a jail. [Local, U. S.]

A jail. See Calaboose.

That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation.