Ductile \Duc"tile\, a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F.
   ductile. See Duct.]
   1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives,
      persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
      --Addison.
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            Forms their ductile minds
            To human virtues.                     --Philips.
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   2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or
      threads.
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            Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all
            metals.                               --Dryden.
      -- Duc"tile*ly, adv. -- Duc"tile*ness, n.
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