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ess, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building.

ft his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture. Buckle.

To form a final judgment; to reach a decision. Can we conclude upon Luther's instability Bp. Atterbury. Conclude and be agreed. Shak.

the state, etc. Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Madison. Disease germ. See under Germ.…

The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy. Shak.

Uncertainty; instability. Johnson.

The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.

Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt. The incertitude and instability of this life. Holland. He fails . . . from mere incertitude or irresolution. I. Taylor.

Instability; unstableness.

Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. L'Estrange.

Instability; inconstancy. [Obs.] The vain shittlenesse of an unconstant head. Baret.

ter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness. That which hinders the approach of two bodies when they are moving one toward another, I call soli…

The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.