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Word Meanings - SHIPPEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stable; a cowhouse.

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  • STABLENESS
    The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
  • STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
    A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
  • STABLE STAND
    The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing
  • STABLER
    A stable keeper. De Foe.
  • STABLE
    1. Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. Rogers. 2. Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose;
  • POSTABLE
    Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
  • INTESTABLE
    Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
  • CONSTABLESS
    The wife of a constable.
  • CONTESTABLE
    Capable of being contested; debatable.
  • THERMOSTABLE
    Capable of being heated to or somewhat above 55ยบ C. without loss of special properties; -- said of immune substances, etc.
  • INTASTABLE
    Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. Grew.
  • UNCONTESTABLE
    Incontestable.
  • ACCOSTABLE
    Approachable; affable. Hawthorne.
  • DETESTABLE
    Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11. Syn. -- Abominable;
  • DETESTABLENESS
    The quality or state of being detestable.
  • UNSTABLE
    Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow. -- Un*sta"ble*ness, n. Chaucer. Unstable equilibrium. See Stable equilibrium, under Stable.
  • PRESTABLE
    Payable.
  • MANIFESTABLE
    Such as can be manifested.
  • CONSTABLE
    sense 1), OF. conestable, F. conn, LL. conestabulus, constabularius, comes stabuli, orig., count of the stable, master of the horse, equerry; comes ount + L. stabulum stable. See Count a 1. A high officer in the monarhical establishments of the
  • CONSTABLESHIP
    The office or functions of a constable.
  • GUSTABLE
    1. Capable of being tasted; tastable. This position informs us of a vulgar error, terming the gall bitter; whereas there is nothing gustable sweeter. Harvey. 2. Pleasant to the taste; toothsome; savory. A gustable thing, seen or smelt, excites
  • LIVERY STABLE
    . A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 & .

 

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