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possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident. "A tangible blunder." Byron. Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and others. Southey. -- Tan"gi*ble*ness, n. -- Tan"gi*bly, adv.

Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible. Bp. Wilkins. A corporation is an artificial, invisible, intangible being. Marshall. -- In*tan"gi*ble*ness, n. -- In*tan"gi*bly, adv.

Intangible. [R.]

A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters are represented by tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.

Not material; intangible; incorporeal. "Impalpable, void, and bodiless." Holland.

ality of being imporous; want of porosity; compactness. "The . . . imporosity betwixt the tangible parts." Bacon.

law; not capable of actual visible seizin or possession; not being an object of sense; intangible; -- opposed to corporeal. Incorporeal hereditament. See under Hereditament.

The quality or state of being intangible; intangibleness.

, or which may be regarded as put, in the way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible; as, he observed an object in the distance; all the objects in sight; he touched a strange object in the dark.

appeal to; to invite. That fruit . . . solicited her longing eye. Milton. Sounds and some tangible qualities solicit their proper senses, and force an entrance to the mind. Locke.

Capable of being touched; tangible. [R.] "They [women] being created to be both tractable and tactable." Massinger.

The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.

The quality or state of being tangible.

Capable of being touched; tangible. -- Touch"a*ble*ness, n.