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aking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak.

be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper . . . can overcome all private fear. Addison.

The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.

cted, or thrown back. The light of the sun consists of rays differently refrangible and reflexible. Cheyne.

Inflexible.

trument, said to have been invented by Archimedes, for raising water, formed by winding a flexible tube round a cylinder in the form of a screw. When the screw is placed in an inclined position, and the lower end immersed in water, by causing the screw to revolve, the water is raised to the upper end. Francis.…

One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor. The inflexible asserter of the rights of the church. Milman.

A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.

A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.

A long, flexible instrument, that is

Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding. [Obs.]

A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.

ncarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief. A fresh bull of Leo's had declared how inflexible the court of Rome was in the point of abuses. Atterbury.

en to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible.

-- Chain hook (Naut.), a hook, used for dragging cables about the deck. -- Chain mail, flexible, defensive armor of hammered metal links wrought into the form of a garment. -- Chain molding (Arch.), a form of molding in imitation of a chain, used in the Normal style. -- Chain pier, a pier suspended by chain. -- C…

A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments.

urnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. Knight.

A partition in any compartment, for various purposes. Diaphragm pump, one in which a flexible diaphragm takes the place of a piston.

Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. [Scot.] A dour wife, a sour old carlin. C. Reade.