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Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.

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  1. a. Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
  2. a. Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue.
  3. a. Changeable; unstable; fickle.
  4. a. Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
  5. adj. marked by a ready flow of speech
  6. Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, thevoluble stem of hop plants. Voluble stem (Bot.), a stem that climbsby winding, or twining, round another body.-- Vol"u*ble*ness, n.-- Vol"u*bly, adv.
  7. j:100 a. marked by a ready flow of speech