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Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable.

The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect; unteachableness; intractableness. The stiffness and indocility of the Pharisees. W. Montagu.

Inextinguishable. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

So as not to be extinguished; in an inextinguishable manner.

Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event. 'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable. Beau. & Fl. Waiving a…

Capable of being instructed; teachable; docible. Bacon.

Unsearchable; inscrutable. [Obs.] So unsearchable the judgment and so investigable the ways thereof. Bale.

In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.

Incapable of being justly reproved; irreproachable; blameless; upright. -- Ir`re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*prov"a*bly, adv.

nth (Bot.), a plant of the genus Hyacinthus. -- Lily iron, a kind of harpoon with a detachable head of peculiar shape, used in capturing swordfish. -- Lily of the valley (Bot.), a low perennial herb (Convallaria majalis), having a raceme of nodding, fragrant, white flowers. -- Lily pad, the large floating leaf of th…

The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.

A model of the human body, made of papier-mache or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting the different parts and organs, their relative position, etc.

orm; -- said of spirits. A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being. Epes Sargent.

e or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound. There was... fire mingled with the hail. Ex. ix. 24.

ed; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notæ. What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles. Sir I. Newton. Few agree in their notions about these words. Cheyne. That notion of hunger, cold,…

The state or quality of being distanguishable from the perceiving mind, by being in space, and possessing marerial quality; externality; objectivity. The outness of the objects of sense. Sir W. Hamiltom.

Perishableness.

In a perishable degree or manner.

A detachable share at the extreme front end of the plow body.

A room, or apparatus, in which perishable things, as fruit, vegetables, etc., can be preserved without decay.