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The Meaning of sable

  • (n.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
  • (n.) The fur of the sable.
  • (n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.
  • (n.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
  • (a.) Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.
  • (v. t.) To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.

Rhymes

abel , abell , able , cable , chaebol , crable , disable , enable , fable , frable , gable , habile , hable , intercable , kable , knable , label , laible , mabel , mable , mislabel , playbill , rabal , raible , relabel , roundtable , stabile , stable , table , timetable , turntable , unable , unstable , waibel , waybill , zabel