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Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.

Capable of being cheated.

Capability of being cheated.

That may be created.

That may be entreated.

Liable to escheat.

Not to be entreated; inexorable.

Capable of being passed over or traversed; passable. [Obs.]

Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. [Obs.] " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.

be come at, or reached; inaccessible. [Colloq.] Addison. My honor is infallible and uncomeatable. Congreve.

Incapable of being treated; not practicable. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot.

Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.

Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n.

Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones. Esculent swallow (Zoöl.), the swallow which makes the edible bird's- nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible.

Eatable; fruitful. [R.] Chapman.

One who pots meats or other eatables.

Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; -- often in the plural. And of provisions laid in large, For man and beast. Milton.

rty yellowish white color, very soft, and deliciously sweet. Called also naseberry. It is eatable only when it begins to be spotted, and is much used in desserts.

A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel. [Written also titbit.]