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Automatic stability; also, inherent stability. An aëroplane is inherently stable if it keeps in steady poise by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of self-operative mechanism.

Disputable. [Obs.]

Capable of culti [Obs.] Burton.

Navigable for boats, or small river craft. The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse.

A Cantabrigian. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.

Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain.

A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England.

One who opposes baptism, especially of infants. [Obs.] Featley.

A vault under altar of a Greek church.

Aee under Force.

Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . . I will speak to thee. Shak.

The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.

In a charitable manner.

Capable of being cheated.

Capability of being cheated.

Capable of being cited.

Joint establishment. Bp. Watson.

The quality of being cogitable; conceivableness.

ng brought before the mind as a throught or idea; conceivable; thinkable. Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton.