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Not extricable; inextricable. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Implacable. [Obs.]

Impracticable; not feasible.

Capable of being vindicated. -- Vin`di*ca*bil"i*ty, n.

Vitrifiable. [Obs.]

letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle.

A sum or stock of words employed. His vocabulary seems to have been no larger than was necessary for the transaction of business. Macaulay.

The writer or maker of a vocabulary; a lexicographer.

Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

. Macaulay. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets of curiosities. Addison.

fficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

Capable of being accomplished; practicable. Carlyle.

Capable of being accounted for; explicable. [R.] True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. B. Whichcote.

execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain. A mild and popular administration. Macaulay. The administration has been opposed in parliament. Johnson.

An elevated cableway.

ns, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. Cogan.

he stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway.

Possible to be done; practicable. [Obs.] "Fit for agible things." Sir A. Sherley.

he relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.

To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable. [Obs.] Wither.