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

An instrument for accurately determining the ductility of metals.

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

A turning into a circle; round figures. [Obs.] Donne.

A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

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.

The quality or state of being erectile.

To discuss; to ventilate. [Obs.] Johnson.

The act of eventilating; discussion. [Obs.] Bp. Berkely.

The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self- nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure. Syd. Soc. Lex.

A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.

Capable of being thrust out or protruded. J. Fleming.

To drop or distill. [Obs.] Johnson.

Distillation. [Obs.] An exudation or extillation of petrifying juices. Derham.

The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius).

Prophetic; fatidical. [Obs.] Blount.

A fortune teller.

In a faulty manner.

uitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination. Though he in a fertile climate dwell. Shak.

In a fertile or fruitful manner.