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Capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented, or uttered. -- Express"i*bly,adv.

ssion or utterance in language; ineffable; unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure. "Inexpressible grandeur." Blair. In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood. Milton.

Breeches; trousers. [Colloq. or Slang] Ld. Lytton.

Inexpressible. Tillotson. -- Un`ex*press"i*bly, adv.

ms of bodies, in some simple ratio, as of one to one, two to three, or some other, always expressible in whole numbers. -- Atomic weight (Chem.), the weight of the atom of an element as compared with the weight of the atom of hydrogen, taken as a standard.

To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others.

n. [R.] Sir T. Browne. computers to convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in binary notation

In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.

Inexpressible. [R.]

Unutterable; inexpressible. Milton.

Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible. But what it is, that is not yet known; what I can not name; nameless woe,I wot. Shak. I have a nameless horror of the man. Hawthorne.

umerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.

uch engines of orbs. Bacon. You seem to me as Dian in her orb. Shak. In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. Milton.

rected right lines in space, considered as depending on four geometrical elements, and as expressible by an algebraic symbol of quadrinomial form.

Inexpressible; indescribable. [R.] Shak.

Incapable of being expressed; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable. [Obs.] Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she. Shak. -- Un`ex*press"ive*ly, adv.

Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage. -- Un*speak"a*bly, adv. Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. 1 Pet. i. 8.

Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.