navicular

[Lat. navicular is, from navic ula a little ship; dim in. from nav is a ship; Fr. navicula ire.] Ord. Lang. Of or pertaining to small ships or boats; shaped like a boat. II. Technically : 1. Anat.: Pertaining to the navicular bone (q. v.). ( Field, Dec. 6, 1854.) 2. Bot.: [BOAT-SHAPED.] navicular-bone, s. Anat.: The scaphoid bone of the hand or foot. navicular-fo a, s. Anat.: A slight depre ion at the base of the internal pterygoid proce ; it gives attachment to the tensor palati muscle. (Quain.) năv-i-ga-bil-i-ty, s . [Fr. navigabilité , from navigable =navigable (q. v.).] The quality or state of being navigable; capability of being navigated. năv-i-ga-ble, a. [Fr., from Lat. navigabilis , from navigo to navigate (q. v.); Sp. navegable ; Ital. navigabile .] 1. That may or can be navigated; capable of being navigated by a ship; affording pa age to ships. "The valleys of the Forth and Carron were navigable arms of the sea." - Wilson: Prehistoric Man , ch. vi. *2. Fit for navigation or sailing; sailing; engaged in navigation. "The better supporting of navigable ve els."- Hake will: Apologie, bk. ii., ch. viii., § 1. năv-i-ga-ble-ne , s. [Eng. navigable; -ne .] The quality or state of being navigable; navigability. năv-1-ga-bly, adv. [Eng. navigab ( le ); -ly.] In a navigable manner; so as to be navigable. *năv-i-gant, subst . [Lat. navigans , pr. par. of navigo to navigate (q. v.).] A navigator, a sailor. "Under whose [God's] merciful hands navigants above all other creatures naturally be most nigh and vicine."Hackluyt: Voyages , i. 229.