a. [f. L. extrīcā-re: see next and -ABLE.] That may or can be extricated. † a. That may be unravelled or solved (obs.). b. That may be set free or got out.
a. 1623–6. in Cockeram.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 863. Some Difficulty, not easily Extricable by us.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnotheo, Wks. 1721, III. 274. With Diabolic Eden them [the Labyrinth, Catacombs, etc.] compare, They regular, and extricable are.
b. a. 1794. Sir W. Jones, Select Ind. Plants, § 28. Germ … scarce extricable from the calyx enclosing and grasping it.
1853. Miss E. S. Sheppard, Ch. Auchester, I. 11. When deftly handled, [our piano] had still some delights extricable.
