a. [ad. med. or mod.L. transpīrābilis, or a. F. transpirable (c. 1560 Paré): see TRANSPIRE and -ABLE.] Admitting of transpiration; capable of being breathed through.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, I. 7. Neither would substance of such, be anything so transpirable as were in that Case expedient.
1611. Cotgr., Transpirable, transpirable, easie to breath out or through.
1674. R. Godfrey, Inj. & Ab. Physic, 69. So long as we live, our whole Body … is transpirable, and exspirable.
1687. A. Lovell, trans. Thevenot’s Trav., I. 260. A Bardaque, or Pot, that is Transpirable.
1720. Quincy, trans. Hodges’ Loimologia, 212. The Body must be kept transpirable.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 121. To keep the gill-plates lubricated and transpirable by their secretion.
Hence Transpirability, the quality of being transpirable.
1864–72. Watts, Dict. Chem., II. 821. Transpirability of Gases.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 35. The transpirability of the skin.
