ductile (duktil)

[=F. ductile = Sp. dúctil = Pg. ductil =It. duttile, The sinful wretch has by her arts defiled The ductile spirit of my darling child. Crabbe, Works, IV. 139. Says he, "while his mind's ductile and plastic, I'll place him at Do the boys Hall, Where he'll learn all that's new and gymnastic." Barham, In golds by Legends, II. 165. The overwhelming popularity of "Guzman de Alfarache " rendered this form of fiction so generally welcome in Ticknor , Span. Lit., III. 106. Spain that it made its way into the ductile drama. 2. Flexible; pliable. The ductile rind and leaves of radiant gold. Dryden, Æneid. The toughest and most knotty parts of language became ductile at his touch. Macaulay , Dryden. 3. Capable of being drawn out into wire or threads: as, gold is the most ductile of the metals. All bodies, ductile and tensile, as metals, that will be drawn into wires. Bacon . Stenson, the communication of Jacob son's organ with the buccal cavity.-Efferent duct. Same as deferent canal (which see, under deferent ). - Ejaculatory duct or canal. See duct us ejaculator i us , under duct us . - Galactopho- rous one of the lactiferous ducts of the mammary gland which terminate in the nipple.-Genito-urinary by drawing; ductility. [Rare.] ductilely (duk'til-li), adv . In a ductile manner. Imp. Dict. ductilene (duk'til-nes), n. The quality of be- ing ductile; capability of receiving extension duct. See the extract. In the Urodela, the vasa efferent i a of each testis enter the I, when I value gold, may think upon The ductilene , the application. Donne, Elegies, xviii. and Wolffia, natural order Lemnaceæ, plants growing in ditches and shallow water, floating on the surface, and eaten by ducks and geese. See Lemna. Also called duckweed. duck-mole (duk'mōl), n. Same as duckbill , 1. The duck -mole, on the other hand, lays two eggs at a time, and does not carry them about, but deposits them in her nest, an underground burrow like that of the mole. Pop . Sci . Mo., XXVII. 666.