Word Meanings - COMESTIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot.

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• EATABLE
  Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.
• ESCULENT
  Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones. Esculent swallow , the swallow which makes the edible bird's- nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible.
• SUITABLE
  Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant;
• COMESTIBLE
  Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• THREATEN
  1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
• UNCOMEATABLE
  Not to be come at, or reached; inaccessible. Addison. My honor is infallible and uncomeatable. Congreve.
• CHEATABLENESS
  Capability of being cheated.
• INTREATABLE
  Not to be entreated; inexorable.
• TREATABLE
  Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.
• CREATABLE
  That may be created.
• ESCHEATABLE
  Liable to escheat.
• THREATENER
  One who threatens. Shak.
• BEATEN
  1. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. "A broad and beaten way." Milton. "Beaten gold." Shak. 2. Vanquished; conquered; baffled. 3. Exhausted; tired out. 4. Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. 5. Tried; practiced. Beau.
• WHEATEN
  Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread. Cowper.
• WAR-BEATEN
  Warworn.
• UNTREATABLE
  Incapable of being treated; not practicable. Dr. H. More.
• WORM-EATEN
  1. Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm-eaten timber. Concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten nut. Shak. 2. Worn-out; old; worthless. Sir W. Raleigh. -- Worm"-eat`en*ness, n. Dr. John Smith.
• GREATEN
  To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. A minister's is to greaten and exalt . Ken.
• THREATENING
  a. & n. from Threaten, v. -- Threat"en*ing*ly, adv. Threatening letters , letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.