Obs.]; contractile; compressible; smaller &c (small) &c 193.

V. rarefy, expand, dilate, subtilize^. Adj. rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight; light &c 320; cavernous, spongy &c (hollow) 252. rarefied &c v.; unsubstantial; uncompact^, incompressed^; rarefiable^. 323.

Discoursing on the elasticity of the air, the writer styles it 'the most compressible of bodies,'as if it had any advantage in this respect over the numerous other species of gaseous matter.

However it may be compressed, air returns, on liberation, to its original volume, and while thus perfectly elastic it is also the most compressible of bodies.

His pulse was 52, and soft or compressible.

Gas tables; thermodynamic properties of air, products of combustion and component gases, compressible flow functions, including those of Ascher H. Shapiro and Gilbert M. Edelman.

Gas tables; thermodynamic properties of air, products of combustion and component gases, compressible flow functions, including those of Ascher H. Shapiro and Gilbert M. Edelman.

The best description of him compressible in a few words is Balzac's"He was the incarnation of an entire people.

Evidence to character is necessarily cumulative, and not easily compressible within narrow limits.

About mid-day the pulse has come down to 80; and though feeble and compressible, is a very respectable pulse.