Word Meanings - ESCULENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones. Esculent swallow , the swallow which makes the edible bird's- nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible.
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- EATABLE
Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n. - EDIBLENESS
Suitableness for being eaten. - EDIBLE
Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n. - ESCULENT
Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones. Esculent swallow , the swallow which makes the edible bird's- nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible. - WHOLESOME
1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary. Wholesome thirst and appetite. Milton. From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. A Smith. 2. Contributing to the health of the - CULINARY
Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art. - INCREDIBLENESS
Incredibility. - CHEATABLE
Capable of being cheated. - UNCREDIBLE
Incredible. Bacon. - OBEDIBLE
Obedient. Bp. Hall. - UNCOMEATABLE
Not to be come at, or reached; inaccessible. Addison. My honor is infallible and uncomeatable. Congreve. - CHEATABLENESS
Capability of being cheated. - INTREATABLE
Not to be entreated; inexorable. - CREDIBLE
Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entiled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker. - TREATABLE
Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple. - CREATABLE
That may be created. - ESCHEATABLE
Liable to escheat. - UNTREATABLE
Incapable of being treated; not practicable. Dr. H. More. - INEDIBLE
Not edible; not fit for food. -- In*ed`i*bil"i*ty , n. - CREDIBLENESS
The quality or state of being credible; worthness of belief; credibility. Boyle. - IMPEDIBLE
Capable of being impeded or hindered. Jer. Taylor.