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Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals.

An aspect of the planets when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half. Hutton.

An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees. Hutton.

Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees. Glanvill.

The act or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots. A woman infamous for sortileges and witcheries. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to sortilege.

Sortilege. [R.] De Quincey.

Mode of composition. See Style. [Obs.] May I not write in such a stile as this Bunyan.

A stiletto. [R.]

trimmed into a pointed form. [Obs.] The very quack of fashions, the very he that Wears a stiletto on his chin. Ford.

See Substyle.

Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.

Done by stitching. [R.] Boswell.

nse, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." Beaumont. "Tactile qualities." Sir M. Hale. Tactile sense (Physiol.), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different p…

Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics. Textile cone (Zoöl.), a beautiful cone shell (Conus textilis) in which the colors are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth.

Twisted; wreathed; coiled.

Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.

An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other. Hutton.

A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.