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[VOLUBLE.] Bot.: Twining, voluble. võl-u-bil-i-ty, *vol-u-bil-i-tie, s . [Fr. volu . bilité , from Lat. volubilitatem , acc us. of volubil it as , from volubil is voluble (q. v.).] *1. A rolling or revolving; aptne to roll or re IMG:content-0577.png:[blocks in formation] "And this volubility of human affairs is the judgment of Providence, in the punishment of oppre ion."-L'Estrange. 3. The quality or state of being voluble in speech; over-great readine of the tongue in speaking; exce ive fluency of speech; garrulousne . "The shamele volubility with which he uttered false hoods."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. vi. vol-u-ble, a . [Fr.=easily turned or rolled, fickle, glib, from Lat. volubilem , acc us. of volubil is easily turned about, from volutus , pa. par. of volvo =to turn, to roll; Sp. voluble ; Ital. volubile .] I. Ordinary Language : scroll; hence, a book written on a parchment roll; from the same root as volutus , pa. par. of volvo =to roll; Sp. volumen; Ital. & Port. volume.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Something rolled or convolved; a convolution, a coil, a fold, a wreath, a roll, as a fold of a serpent, or the like. "Th' Inachians view the slain with vast surprise, Her twisting volumes , and her rolling eyes." Pope : Statius ; Thebaid , i. 728. 2. Specially, a written document (as of parchment, papyrus, .), rolled up in a convenient form for preservation or use; a roll, a scroll. The books of the ancients were rolls wound round a stick, called an umbilicus, to the extremities of which, called the cornua (or horns) was attached a label bearing the name of the author, . The whole was placed in a wrapper, and generally anointed with oil of cedar-wood to protect it from the attacks of insects. 3. Hence, applied to a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single complete work, part of a work, or more than one work; a book, a tome. In a narrower sense, that part of an extended work which is bound together in one cover; as, a book in three volumes . "The miscreant bishop of Spalatto wrote learned vol umes against the pope." - Milton : Animad . upon Remonstrant's Defense. (Postcript.) 4. The space occupied by a body; dimensions in length, breadth, and depth; compa , ma , bulk. 5. ( Pl .): A great deal. (Chiefly in the phrase, to speak volumes = that says a great deal, that is full of meaning.) ""There!" 'And there!" as he faced about, and pointed his hand, told what writers are apt to term 'vol umes.'"-London Echo. II. Technically : 1. Chem.: The volume of an irregular body may be found from its weight and specific gravity; that is to say, the weight of a unit volume. If wbe the weight of the body in grammes, and s its specific gravity, the fraction gives its volume in cubic centimeters. The capacities of ve els are determined by filling them with water or mercury from a measuring-tube, or other ve el whose capacity is previously known; or, when very great accuracy is required, by determining the weight of water or mercury, at the standard temperature, which fills the ve el. ( Watts .) 2. Music : A term applied to the power and quality of the tone of a voice or instrument, or of a combination of sounds. 3. Physics: The volume of a body may be real or apparent; the former is the portion of space actually occupied by the matter of which the body is composed, the latter is the sum of its real volume and the total volume of its pores. The real volume is invariable, the apparent volume can be altered in various ways; for instance, it diminishes as a rule on the solidification of the body. ( Ganot .) (1) Atomic volume : [ATOMIC.] (2) Unit of volume : The volume of the cube con IMG:content-0578.png:[blocks in formation] *3. Of fluent speech, without conveying the imputation that there was a deficiency of thought in what was said. "He [Archbishop Abbot] was painful, stout, severe against bad manners, of a grave and voluble eloquence." -Hacket : Life of Williams , pt. i., p. 65. 4. Characterized by an exce ive flow of words, or by glibne of speech; speaking with over-great fluency; glib. "An old Communist here interrupted the voluble fury." -London Daily Telegraph . II. Bot .: Twining (q. v.). *võl'-u-ble-ne , s. [Eng. voluble ; -ne .] The quality or state of being voluble; volubility. vol-u-bly, adv . [Eng. volub ( le ); -ly .] In a voluble or over-fluent manner; with volubility. võl-u-çěl-lạ, s. [Dimin. from Latin volucer = flying, winged.] Entom .: A genus of Syrphide, akin to Syrphus, but stouter and le gayly colored. The larvæ are wrinkled, and have on each side a double row of short spines, while at the extremity are four to six longer spines arranged in a radiated manner. Beneath are six pairs of tubercles with claws, which serve as prolegs. They reside in the nests of bumble bees, on the young of which they feed. The perfect insect resembles a Bombus. S. System of Units , p. 1.) *võl'-ume, v. i. [VOLUME, 8.] To swell; to rise in bulk or volume. "The mighty steam which volumes high From their proud nostrils burns the very air." Byron: The Deformed Transformed, i. 2.