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Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated. Feltham.

Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on gullible. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.

Liable to depredation. [Obs.] "Made less depredable." Bacon.

Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed. Kings of Spain . . . deprivable for their tyrannies. Prynne.

Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.

Capability or liableness to be discerped. [R.] Wollaston.

Liable or deserving to be disciplined; subject to disciplinary punishment; as, a disciplinable offense.

Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. Actions, every one of which is very disputable. Jer. Taylor.

So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; not liable to be misunderstood; not confused; well-defined; clear; as, we have a distinct or indistinct view of a prospect. Relation more particular and distinct. Milton.

Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained. Blackstone.

Easily molded; pliable.

nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.

Liable to be doubted; uncertain. [R.] Dr. H. More. -- Du"bi*ta*bly, adv. [R.]

Tractableness; pliableness. South.

rous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.

That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.

To convey to a distance, or beyond the jurisdiction, or to conceal, as goods liable to distress. The sheriff may return that the goods or beasts are eloigned. Blackstone.

Liable to error; fallible.