Definition of movable

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Movable (a.) Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine..

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Niere :: niere (n.) A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers.
Seta :: Seta (n.) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form..
Curtain :: Curtain (n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage..
Echinoidea :: Echinoidea (n. pl.) The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid..
Cant Hook :: Cant hook () A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc..
Feud :: Feud (n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee..
Rhynchocephala :: Rhynchocephala (n. pl.) An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia..
Grating :: Grating (n.) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable Lattice used for the flooring of boats..
Crab :: Crab (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc..
Moebles :: Moebles (n. pl.) Movables; furniture; -- also used in the singular (moeble).
Ambulatory :: Ambulatory (a.) Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places..
Chilostomata :: Chilostomata (n. pl.) An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells..
Immovable :: Immovable (a.) Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundatin..
Buffet :: Buffet (n.) A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard..
Sceneman :: Sceneman (n.) The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.
Dative :: Dative (a.) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer..
Commodity :: Commodity (n.) That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc..
Draw :: Draw (n.) That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge..
Condenser :: Condenser (n.) An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape..
Snail :: Snail (n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo..
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