a. [ L. ambo both + laevus left. ] Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.
Syn. -- car, auto, machine, motorcar. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

v. i. 1. to travel in an automobile.
Syn. -- motor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. bilis: cf. F. bile. ] 1. (Physiol.) A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The ancients considered the bile to be the “humor” which caused irascibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. byle, bule, bele, AS. b&unr_;le, b&unr_;l; skin to D. buil, G. beule, and Goth. ufbauljan to puff up. Cf. Boil a tumor, Bulge. ] A boil. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bile + stone. ] A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖a. [ It., cantare to sing. ] (Mus.) In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. (Mus.) A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., bed. ] The lowest course of stones in a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. debilis: cf. F. débile. See Debility. ] Weak. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ etc. } an anniversary celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the event commemorated. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. flabilis. ] Liable to be blown about. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. habile, L. habilis. See Able, Habit. ] Fit; qualified; also, apt. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ See 2d Hobbler. ] A light horseman. See 2d Hobbler. [ Obs. ] Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of falling or erring; infalliable. [ Obs. ] -- Il`la*bil"i*ty n. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. immobilis: cf. F. immobile. See Immobility. ] Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable. Prof. Shedd. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inhabilis: cf. F. inhabile. See In- not, and Habile, and cf. Unable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not apt or fit; unfit; not convenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; as, inhabile matter. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unskilled; unready; awkward; incompetent; unqualified; -- said of persons. [ Obs. ] See Unable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. jubilé, L. jubilaeus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. Heb. yōbel the blast of a trumpet, also the grand sabbatical year, which was announced by sound of trumpet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Jewish Hist.) Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners. [ In this sense spelled also, in some English Bibles, jubile. ] Lev. xxv. 8-17. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (R. C. Ch.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence granted by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A season of general joy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The town was all a jubilee of feasts. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A state of joy or exultation. [ R. ] “In the jubilee of his spirits.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. labilis apt to slip, fr. labi to slip. ] 1. Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. [ Obs. ] Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liable or likely to change. [ PJC ]

3. (Chem.) Easily decomposed or inactivated when subjected to heat, radiation, or mildly acidic or alkaline conditions; -- of chemical compounds; as, enzymes from thermophilic organisms are not as labile as those from mesophiles. [ PJC ]

adv. [ Latin. ] Remarkably; strange to say; marvelous to relate. [ PJC ]

n. Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to move: cf. F. mobile. See Move. ] 1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. “Fixed or else mobile.” Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. Testament of Love. [ 1913 Webster ]

The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force. [ PJC ]

7. Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and cf. 3d Mob. ] The mob; the populace. [ Obs. ] “The unthinking mobile.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the parts may move independently when set in motion by a current of air. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. nubilis, fr. nubere to marry: cf. F. nubile. See Nuptial. ] Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sexually attractive, sometimes used as a genteel euphemism for having well-developed breasts; -- of a young woman. [ PJC ]

‖ [ L., first cause of motion. ] (Astron.) In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline. [ 1913 Webster ]

The motions of the greatest persons in a government ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under primum mobile. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sorbilis, fr. sorbere to suck in, to drink down. ] Fit to be drunk or sipped. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. strobole. ] [ Written also strobil. ] 1. (Bot.) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Same as Strobila. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid, C7H8O4, obtained as a white crystalline substance by a modified oxidation of terebic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

See drainable.
See dramatic.
See drinkable.
See durable.
See duteous.
See dutiful.
See earnest.
See eatable.
See ecclesiastical.
See edible.
See elaborate.
See elective.
See elusive.
See emotional.
See emphatic. See employable.
See employable.
See endurable.
See -English.
See entire.
See enviable.
See envious.
See episcopal.
See equable.
See errable.
See escapable.
See evangelical.
See eventful.
See evident.
See exact.
See examinable.
See exceptionable.
See exclusive.
See exemplary.
See exempt.
See exhaustible.
See existent.
See expectable.
See expectant.
See explainable.
See express.
See expressible.
See expugnable.
See extinct.
See factious.
See fadable.
See fain.
See familiar.
See famous.
See fashionable.
See fast.
See fatherly.
See fathomable.
See faulty.
See fearful.
See feasible.
See felicitous.
See felt.
See feminine.
See fermentable.
See festival.
See fine.
See fleshy.
See fluent.
See forcible.
See fordable.
See foreknowable.
See foreseeable.
See forgetful.
See forgivable.
See formal.
See framable.
See fraternal.
See friable.
See frightful.
See frustrable.
See full.
See gainable.
See gainful.
See gallant.
See genial.
See genteel.
See gentle.
See gentlemanlike.
See gentlemanly.
See geometrical.
See ghostly.
See glad.
See godlike.
See good.
See goodly.
See gorgeous.
See grammatical.
See grave.
See guidable.
See guilty.
See habile.
See habitable.
See hale.
See handy.
See hardy.
See harmful.
See hasty.
See hazardous.
See healable.
See healthful.
See healthy.
See heavenly.
See heedful.
See helpful.
See heritable.
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{ , a. [ See Voluble. ] Turning, or whirling; winding; twining; voluble. [ 1913 Webster ]