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A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway. Bell gable. See under Bell. -- Gable roof, a double sloping roof which forms a gable at each end. -- Gable wall. Same as Gable (b). -- Gable window, a window in a gable.

A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.

Capable of being abrogated.

Capable of being begged.

Capable of being sailed round. Ray.

Capable of being wearied or tired out. [R.] Glanvill.

Capable of being dug.

Easily tired. [Obs.] Bailey.

Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased. Coleridge.

nremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application. "A constant, indefatigable attendance." South. Upborne with indefatigable wings. Milton.

Indefatigable quality; unweariedness; persistency. Parnell.

Indefatigable. [Obs.] Daniel.

Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels. Drygen. -- In*nav"i*ga*bly, adv.

Unsearchable; inscrutable. [Obs.] So unsearchable the judgment and so investigable the ways thereof. Bale.

Not refragable; not to be gainsaid or denied; not to be refuted or overthrown; unanswerable; incontestable; undeniable; as, an irrefragable argument; irrefragable evidence. -- Ir*ref"ra*ga*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*ref"ra*ga*bly, adv.

Capable of being levigated.

Such as can be litigated.

Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.

e of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river.

ple seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.