Usage examples (16)

• A thing is viscous when, being moist or soft, it is tractile.
• The "student of Slavers" was running his padded, re - tractile-clawed hands over the sphere-with-a-handle.
• They must be tractile (without admitting water) or malleable (without consisting of water), and the agent in softening them is fire.
• Things are tractile when their surface can be made to elongate, for being drawn out is a movement of the surface, remaining unbroken, in the direction of the mover.