Adjective : Most frangible toys are not suitable for young children. From Dictionary.com.
There are two advantages to frangibility in varmint bullets. From Wordnik.com. [Gun Geezer Makes Muscatel* Mist] Reference
To understand the magnificence of the wonderful structure, the reader must have in mind the laws affecting light in transmission through water -- the frangibility of the rays, the frequent alternations in dispersion, reflection, interference and accidental and complementary color. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
Technical criteria of interest for this application include density, frangibility, and barrel wear. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
The history of rachitis, of melanosis, and of osteoporosis, as related to an abnormal frangibility of the bones, is a part of our common medical knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Dogs and young horses, with those which have become sufficiently aged for their bones to have acquired an enhanced degree of frangibility, are more liable than those which have not exceeded the time of their prime. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
It was cool without being chill, and took the warmth of one's hand flatteringly soon, as if it liked to do so, yet kept its freshness; it was smooth without being glossy, mat as a pearl, and as delightful to roll in the hand; and of an exquisite, alarming frangibility that gave it, in its small way, that flavour which belongs to pleasures that are dogged by the danger of a violent end. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
Four years at one school give opportunities which are illimitable, but the present writer knew neither of them in the bread-and-butter period, and was properly reproved by the one and snubbed by the other when, in the supposed superiority of his years and co-extensive views on the frangibility of feminine friendship, he had sought to raise the veil of the past and peer into the archives of those school-days. From Wordnik.com. [Marion's Faith.] Reference
Portending frangibility. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Degree of Rc - frangibility, without any. From Wordnik.com. [Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever ...] Reference
25. frangibility. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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