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Capable of being dispensed or administered.

Quality of being dispensable.

Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.

The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.

Indispensable.

corner of the foundation of an edifice; hence, that which is fundamental importance or indispensable. "A prince who regarded uniformity of faith as the corner stone of his government." Prescott. -- Corner tooth, one of the four teeth which come in a horse's mouth at the age of four years and a half, one on each side…

Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary. Judgment's more essential to a general Than courage. Denham. How to live -- that is the essential question for us. H. Spencer.

In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different.

Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Top hamper (Naut.), unnecessary spars and rigging kept aloft.

rcial article is a strong solution of the gas in water. It is a typical acid, and is an indispensable agent in commercial and general chemical work. Called also muriatic, and chlorhydric, acid.

Indispensableness.

In an indispensable manner. "Indispensably necessary." Bp. Warburton.

ion or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose. An indispensable part of the machinery of state. Macaulay. The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

erwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential. "'T is necessary he should die." Shak. A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds. Tillotson.

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable. Sickness [might] necessitate his removal from the court. South. This fact necessitates a second line. J. Peile.

lity or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

an exchange. Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago ... the most indispensable supplies. Gibbon.

To demand or exact as indispensable; to need. just gave what life required, and gave no more. Goldsmith. The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed. J. A. Symonds.

That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable. God, on his part, has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know. Wake.

Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable. Mr. Alexander Truncheon, who is their right-hand man in the troop. Addison. Right-hand rope, a rope which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is, in the same direction as plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.