a. [f. SWALLOW v. + -ABLE.] Capable of being or fit to be swallowed (lit. and fig.).
1818. Bentham, Ch. Eng., Introd. 42. This altogether indigestible and scarcely swallowable morsel.
1846–9. S. R. Maitland, Ess., etc., 315. The reader, who for the first time meets with an anecdote in its hundredth edition, and its most mitigated and swallowable form.
1887. Stevenson, Lett., 22 Aug. The berths are excellent, the pasture swallowable.
