Word Meanings - CONTRACTIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.

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• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• CONTRACTIBLENESS
  Contractibility.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• CONTRACTION
  The process of shortening an operation. 3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• CAPABLENESS
  The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• CAPABLE
  1. Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior. 2.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• OVERCAPABLE
  Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• UNSCAPABLE
  Not be escaped; inevitable. Wyclif.
• INESCAPABLE
  Not escapable.