Hypertext Webster Gateway: "movable"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Movable \Mov"a*ble\, a. [Cf. OF. movable. See {Move}.]
1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or
conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture;
susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a
movable steam engine.
2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i.
e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year
to year.
{Movable letter} (Heb. Gram.), a letter that is pronounced,
as opposed to one that is quiescent.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Movable \Mov"a*ble\, n.; pl. {Movables}.
1. An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of
property not fixed, or not a part of real estate;
generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.
Furnished with the most rich and princely movables.
--Evelyn.
2. (Rom. Law) Property not attached to the soil.
Note: The word is not convertible with personal property,
since rents and similar incidents of the soil which are
personal property by our law are immovables by the
Roman law. --Wharton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
movable
adj 1: (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be
moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
2: capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
[syn: {moveable}, {transferable}, {transferrable}, {transportable}]
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