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testines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.

A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. E. Darwin.

Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving mo…

In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.

The lowest course of stones in a building.

Weak. [Obs.] Shak.

One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.

Liable to be blown about. Bailey.

Fit; qualified; also, apt. [Obs.] Spenser.

A light horseman. See 2d Hobbler. [Obs.] Brande & C.

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

Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable. Prof. Shedd.

Not apt or fit; unfit; not convenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; as, inhabile matter. [Obs.]

d reverted to their former owners. [In this sense spelled also, in some English Bibles, jubile.] Lev. xxv. 8-17.

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

Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile." Skelton.

Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable. Prior.