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of ability; want of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity. It is not from an inability to discover what they ought to do, that men err in practice. Blair.

The quality of being attainable; attainbleness.

The quality of being determinable; determinableness. Coleridge.

Capacity for imagination. [R.] Coleridge.

The quality or state of being laminable.

Capability of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.] Bp. Bull.

Inability to coördinate muscular actions properly in walking. - - A*ba"sic (#), a.

Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.

Inability to judge.

Inability to swallow.

Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.

As used by some, inability to read aloud, due to brain disease.

Inability to transmit radiant; impermeability to heat. Tyndall.

The quality of being attainable; attainability.

ended use of the b sound in speech, due to conversion of other sounds into it, as through inability to distinguish them from b, or because of difficulty in pronouncing them.

State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.

To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion. To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. Farrow.

Inability to express one's self; stiffness. [Obs.] A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself. Wakefield.

Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity. Nichol.

A low condition; weakness; inability. [R.] A dejection of appetite. Arbuthnot.