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Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully. How readily we wish time spent revoked! Cowper.

Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday.

from mere existence or state. Active capital, Active wealth, money, or property that may readily be converted into money.

An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.

of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others. I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the church of England. J. H. Newman.

e auricles of the heart. Auricular finger, the little finger; so called because it can be readily introduced into the ear passage.

Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher velocities (about 35,000 to 180,000 miles per second).…

Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.

neral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles.

mbles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air.

aris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

t has its higher valence. Chromic acid, an acid, H2CrO4, analogous to sulphuric acid, not readily obtained in the free state, but forming well known salts, many of which are colored pigments, as chrome yellow, chrome red, etc. -- Chromic anhydride, a brilliant red crystalline substance, CrO3, regarded as the anhydride…

ms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.

The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

Quite certain. [Colloq.] I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.

Believed too readily. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid.

Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder. Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure. Kirwan.