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ay made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.

The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion.

Removable.

Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundatin. Immovable, infixed, and frozen round. Milton.

Quality of being immovable.

Not amovable or removable. [R.] Palgrave.

Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.

Admitting of being removed. Ayliffe. -- Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty (-, n.

Immovable. "Steadfast, unmovable." 1 Cor. xv. 58. Locke.

e sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working)

Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places. The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and dispersed into all families. Jer. Taylor.

An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems.

A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns,…

The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.

The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable. Forby.

A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. [Local, U.S.]

The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.