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Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. The elephant is at once docible and docile. C. J. Smith.

An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.

Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.

A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile.

ily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips.

An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.

See Ædile.

The office of ædile. T. Arnold.

One who embroils.

ject, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be "enfiled of" the thing which it pierces.

Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.

To store (green fodder) in a silo; to prepare as silage. -- En"si*list (#), n.

Same as Æolipile.

The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. Dunglison.

Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.

Epileptic.

Resembling epilepsy.

Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.

Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions.

Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated. Erectile tissue (Anat.), a tissue which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by the distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains.