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Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair.

Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. [Obs.] Cheyne.

Liable to lapse.

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredie…

The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.

Easily bent; pliable. Lithy tree (Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum Lantana); -- so named from its tough and flexible stem.

-- Marching regiment. (Mil.) (a) A regiment in active service. (b) In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regiment of the line.

Thin and rather soft or pliable, as the leaves of the rose, peach tree, and aspen poplar.

Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.

Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being modified; liable to modification.

A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon. Moon blindness. (a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks. (b) (Med.) Hemeralopia. -- Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight. -- Moon face, a round face like a full moon. -- Moon madness, lunacy. [Poetic] -- Moon month, a…

e, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank ... is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock.

Capable of being multiplied; multipliable.

n oil obtained by boiling the feet of neat cattle. It is used to render leather soft and pliable.

Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words. -- Ob*jec"tion*a*bly, adv.

Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton. Obnoxious, first or last, To basest things Milton.

Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] "Obvious to dispute." Milton.

vate; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed. If Demetrius . . . have a matter against any man, the law is open and there are deputies. Acts xix. 33. The service that I truly did his life, Hath left…