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Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.

in the leaf axils, as in the tiger lily, or relpacing the flowers, as in some onions, and capable, when separated, of propagating the plant; -- called also bulblet and brood bud.

Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.

t, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage. The baroness in a calash capable of holding herself, her two children, and her servants. W. Irving.

Skillful; knowing; capable. Sir W. Scott.

The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. A capability to take a thousand views of a subject. H. Taylor.

To render capable; to enable; to qualify. By thih instruction we may be capaciated to observe those errors. Dryden.

alcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good polish, and often used for seals.

Capable of being carried.

usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat.

Capable of being caught. [R.]

Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.

language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. J. S. Mill.

Capable of being caused.

Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

Capable of being chased; fit for hunting. Gower.

Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable. Sherwood.

Capable of being cheated.