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Procrustes :: Procrustes (n.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes..

Vulnerary :: Vulnerary (a.) Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions..

Traversing :: Traversing (a.) Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion..

Mistime :: Mistime (v. t.) To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.

Remiped :: Remiped (n.) One of a group of aquatic beetles having tarsi adapted for swimming. See Water beetle.

Apt :: Apt (v. t.) To fit; to suit; to adapt.

Serviceable :: Serviceable (a.) Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous..

Confutative :: Confutative (a.) Adapted or designed to confute.

Dramatize :: Dramatize (v. t.) To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode..

Venereal :: Venereal (a.) Adapted to excite venereal desire; aphrodisiac.

Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules..

Fit :: Fit (v. i.) To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very well..

Able :: Able (superl.) Fit; adapted; suitable.

Counterpart :: Counterpart (n.) A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite..

Connaturalize :: Connaturalize (v. t.) To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt.

Pinion :: Pinion (n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis..

Gyrodus :: Gyrodus (n.) A genus of extinct oolitic fishes, having rounded teeth in several rows adapted for crushing..

Pasilaly :: Pasilaly (n.) A form of speech adapted to be used by all mankind; universal language.

Level :: Level (v. t.) To adjust or adapt to a certain level; as, to level remarks to the capacity of children..

Rattle :: Rattle (n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.

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