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That may be devoured.

The quality of being discoverable. [R.] Carlyle.

Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

Unfavorable. [Obs.] Stow.

Unpropitiously. [Obs.]

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

eing disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder. Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure. Kirwan.

hick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

One who associates with drabs; a wencher. Massinger.

A coarse linen fabric, or duck.

Somewhat drab in color.

To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.

A draggle-tail; a slattern. Halliwell.

A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and…

lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness. Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. Prov. viii. 18. An interest which from its object and grounds must be so durable. De Quincey.

Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability. The durableness of the metal that supports it. Addison.

In a lasting manner; with long continuance.

Arable; tillable. [Archaic]

Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable. Macaulay. -- En*dur"a*ble*ness, n.