Word Meanings - IRRETRACTILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not retractile. 2. Not tractile or ductile. Sir W. Hamilton.

Related words: (words related to IRRETRACTILE)

• DUCTILE
  1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold
• TRACTILE
  Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.
• RETRACTILE
  CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• IRRETRACTILE
  1. Not retractile. 2. Not tractile or ductile. Sir W. Hamilton.
• PROTRACTILE
  Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.
• INTRACTILE
  Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended. Bacon.
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• CONTRACTILE
  tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance.
• DISTRACTILE
  Tending or serving to draw apart.
• INDUCTILE
  Not ductile; incapable of being drawn into threads, as a metal; inelastic; tough.