Meaning of levigable | Babel Free

Definitions

Capable of being levigated. (any sense)

not-comparable

Examples

“Besides the Perrys, dri'd and preserv'd Fruit, useful is the Pear-Tree (and best the most barren, or Pig-taile, as they call it, which is the Wild Pyraster) for its excellent colour'd Timber, hard and levigable (seldom or not ordinarily worm-eaten) especially for Stools, Tables , Chairs, Pistol-Stocks, Instrument-Maker, Cabinets, and very many works of the Joyner, (who can make it easily to counterfeit Ebony) and Sculptor, either for flat, or emboss'd-Works, and to Engrave upon, because the Grain intercepts not the Tool.”

“Can he mean that there is but one substance which fulfils these two conditions of being levigable, and fusible without evaporation?”

“And how when the Critic had done his best, And the Pearl of Price, at reason's test, Lay dust and ashes levigable On the Professor's lecture-table;”

“Hereditary conscience, passing through this fierce crucible, lay levigable before Goethe, to be swept away into dust-hole or moulded into the image of reason.”

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