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Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.

Capable of being drawn out [R.] Feltham.

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

An instrument for accurately determining the ductility of metals.

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

Guidance. [Obs.] Feltham.

Having to duct or outlet; as, a ductless gland.

nce for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4. Knight. Ductor roller (Printing), the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller. Knight.

Guidance. [Obs.] South.

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. Roget.

One who abducts.

To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.

The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.

Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.

toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. Verrill.

A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.

A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.

A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam. Subterranean caliducts have been introduced. Evelyn.

A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.