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Webster 1828 Edition

Untractable

UNTRACT'ABLE

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Adj.

[L. intractabilis.]

1.

Not tractable; not yielding to discipline; stubborn; indocile; ungovernable; as an untractable son.

2.

Rough; difficult.

3.

Not yielding to the heat or to the hammer; as an ore.

[Intractable is more generally used.]