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Capable of being acted. Tennyson.

Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction. -- At*tract"a*ble*ness, n.

Capable of being extracted.

Not perceptible to the touch.

Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child.

Capable of being refracted.

Capable of being retracted; retractile.

Capable of being touched; tangible. [R.] "They [women] being created to be both tractable and tactable." Massinger.

Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. Shak.

Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle.

The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.

metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.

To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle. "To break a colt." Spenser. Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute Shak.

Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. [Obs.] So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to his bands, is joy to see. Spenser. I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it. Foxe.

; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle.

Perverse; untractable; contrary. She was none of your crossgrained, termagant, scolding jades. Arbuthnot.

Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. The elephant is at once docible and docile. C. J. Smith.

Willingness to be taught; tractableness. The humble docility of little children is, in the New Testament, represented as a necessary preparative to the reception of the Christian faith. Beattie.

Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips.

Tractableness; pliableness. South.