\Sen"si*ble\, a. [F., fr. L. sensibilis, fr. sensus
sense.]
1. Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible
   through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the
   mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or
   understanding; ?????? heat; sensible resistance.
         Air is sensible to the touch by its motion.
                                               --Arbuthnot.
         The disgrace was more sensible than the pain. --Sir
                                               W. Temple.
         Any very sensible effect upon the prices of things.
                                               --A. Smith.
2. Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external
   objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of
   the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or
   mentally; impressible.
         Would your cambric were sensible as your finger.
                                               --Shak.
3. Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected;
   having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also,
   readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as,
   a sensible thermometer. ``With affection wondrous
   sensible.'' --Shak.
4. Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or
   the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be
   convinced; satisfied; persuaded.
         He [man] can not think at any time, waking or
         sleeping, without being sensible of it. --Locke.
         They are now sensible it would have been better to
         comply than to refuse.                --Addison.
5. Having moral perception; capable of being affected by
   moral good or evil.
6. Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or
   characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.
         Now a sensible man, by and by a fool. --Shak.
{Sensible note} or {tone} (Mus.), the major seventh note of
   any scale; -- so called because, being but a half step
   below the octave, or key tone, and naturally leading up to
   that, it makes the ear sensible of its approaching sound.
   Called also the {leading tone}.
{Sensible horizon}. See {Horizon}, n., 2.
   (a) .
Syn: Intelligent; wise.
Usage: {Sensible}, {Intelligent}. We call a man sensible
       whose judgments and conduct are marked and governed by
       sound judgment or good common semse. We call one
       intelligent who is quick and clear in his
       understanding, i. e., who discriminates readily and
       nicely in respect to difficult and important
       distinction. The sphere of the sensible man lies in
       matters of practical concern; of the intelligent man,
       in subjects of intellectual interest. ``I have been
       tired with accounts from sensible men, furnished with
       matters of fact which have happened within their own
       knowledge.'' --Addison. ``Trace out numerous footsteps
       . . . of a most wise and intelligent architect
       throughout all this stupendous fabric.'' --Woodward.

\Sen"si*ble\, n.
1. Sensation; sensibility. [R.] ''Our temper changed . . .
   which must needs remove the sensible of pain.'' --Milton.
2. That which impresses itself on the sense; anything
   perceptible.
         Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and
         proper.                               --Krauth-Fleming.
3. That which has sensibility; a sensitive being. [R.]
         This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but
         even to vegetals and sensibles.       --Burton.