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friable, a.|ˈfraɪəb(ə)l|
Also 7–8 fryable.
[a. F. friable, ad. L. friābilis, f. friāre to crumble into small pieces.]
Capable of being easily crumbled or reduced to powder; pulverizable, crumbly.
1563T. Gale Treat. Gonneshot 2 The spume of Nitre is Judged best, which is most lyghte, fryable. 1614Raleigh Hist. World Pref. 17 Stone Walls, of matter moldring and friable, have stood two or three thousand years. 1684–5Boyle Min. Waters 48 Lightly calcin'd..till it became..friable between the Fingers. 1793G. White Selborne iv. (1853) 21 Balls of a friable substance like rust of iron called rust balls. 1845G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. I. 288 The clot is soft, friable..and is very rarely covered with a buffy coat. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit., Farming Wks. (Bohn) III. 61 These tiles..drain the land, make it sweet and friable.
Hence ˈfriableness.
1667Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. (ed. 2) 317 In Vitriol the friableness..need not be attributed to the compositum as such. 1852Johnston in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIII. i. 21 The natural fertility and friableness of its soils. |