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Found 3 hits - Term: voluble, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
voluble \vol"uble\, a. l. volubilis, fr. volvere, volutum, to
   roll, to turn round; akin to gr. ? to infold, to inwrap, ? to
   roll, g. welle a wave: cf. f. voluble. cf. f. well of
   water, convolvulus, devolve, involve, revolt, vault
   an arch, volume, volute.
   1913 webster
   1. easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to
      roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
      1913 webster

   2. moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of
      rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant,
      voluble, tongue.
      1913 webster

            cassio, a knave very voluble.       --shak.
      1913 webster

   note: voluble was used formerly to indicate readiness of
         speech merely, without any derogatory suggestion. "a
         grave and voluble eloquence." --bp. hacket.
         1913 webster

   3. changeable; unstable; fickle. obs.
      1913 webster

   4. bot. having the power or habit of turning or twining;
      as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
      1913 webster

   voluble stem bot., a stem that climbs by winding, or
      twining, round another body.
      1913 webster -- vol"ubleness, n. -- vol"ubly,
      adv.
      1913 webster
see also:
well convolvulus devolve involve revolt vault 
volume volute voluble stem vol"ubleness vol"ubly 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
voluble
     adj : marked by a ready flow of speech; "she is an extremely
           voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not
           conversations" ant: taciturn
see also:
taciturn 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
36 moby thesaurus words for "voluble":
   all jaw, bombastic, candid, chatty, communicative, conversational,
   effusive, expansive, exuberant, flip, fluent, frank, gabby,
   garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, long-winded,
   loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, overtalkative,
   profuse, prolix, silver-tongued, smooth, sociable, talkative,
   talky, verbose, vocative, windy, wordy





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