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Na*vic"u*lar, n. (Anat.)
The navicular bone.

Nav`i*ga*bil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F.
navigabilité.] The quality or condition of being
navigable; navigableness.

Nav"i*ga*ble (?), a. [L.
navigabilis: cf. F. navigable. See Navigate.]
Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to
afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river.

&fist; By the common law, a river is considered as navigable only
so far as the tide ebbs and flows in it. This is also the doctrine in
several of the United States. In other States, the doctrine of the
civil law prevails, which is, that a navigable river is a river
capable of being navigated, in the common sense of the term.
Kent. Burrill.

-- Nav"i*ga*ble*ness, n. --
Nav"i*ga*bly, adv.

Nav"i*gate (?), v. i. [imp. &
p. p. Navigated (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Navigating.] [L. navigatus, p. p. of
navigare, v.


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