levigable

Capable of being levigated. (any sense)

Adjective

  1. Capable of being levigated. (any sense)
    • 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...
    • Can he mean that there is but one substance which fulfils these two conditions of being levigable, and fusible without evaporation? - 1823, J.J. Conybeare, “Article VI: Some Account of Maier's Symbola Aureae Mensae...
    • 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; - 1850, Robert Browning, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day: