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To make smooth, plain, or bare. [Obs.]

Smoothness; baldness. [R.]

Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.

Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. Swift.

A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.

Capable of being healed.

Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.

A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.

A confused noise; uproar; tumult. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Incapable of falling or erring; infalliable. [Obs.] -- Il`la*bil"i*ty, n. [Obs.]

Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.

Not admitting of appeal; not appealable. Coleridge.

The quality of being inappellable; finality. The inappellability of the councils. Coleridge.

Inappealable; final.

The quality or state of being incalculable.

Not capable of being calculated; beyond calculation; very great. -- In*cal"cu*la*ble*ness, n. -- In*cal"cu*la*bly, adv.

Not coagulable.

Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.

Not congealable; incapable of being congealed. -- In`con*geal"a*ble*ness, n.

Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate. Dryden. With inconsolable distress she griev'd, And from her cheek the rose of beauty fied. Falconer. -- In`con*sol"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*sol"a*bly, adv.