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Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two.

hrone, or other high office or dignity. Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy. Burke.

ome themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease.

as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others. I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the church of England. J. H. Newman.

e; to be attached. The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. Brougham.

h a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. Pope. I cannot bear The murmur of this lake to hear. Shelley. My punishment is greater than I can bear. Gen. iv. 13.

That which restrains or confines as a girdle. He cannot buckle his distempered cause Within the belt of rule. Shak.

horough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

n to be criminal, and the offender may be indicted. Bouvier. The bard may supplicate, but cannot bribe. Goldsmith.

tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.

Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that. It cannot be but nature hath some director, of infinite power, to guide her in all her ways. Hooker. There is no question but the king of Spain will reform most of the abuses. Addison.

The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.

re, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.

A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified. The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's

pamper. Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid. Ecclesiasticus xxx. 9. Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up. J. Ingelow.

application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as…

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day. Locke.

d; to understand. "I conceive you." Hawthorne. O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! Shak. You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate. Swift.

ral benevolence. Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.

contraband of war. [U.S.] Contraband of war, that which, according to international law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belligerent. Wharton.