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Vol·u·ble a.
1. Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
2. Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue.
[Cassio,] a knave very voluble. --Shak.
Note: ☞ Voluble was used formerly to indicate readiness of speech merely, without any derogatory suggestion. “A grave and voluble eloquence.”
3. Changeable; unstable; fickle. [Obs.]
4. Bot. Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
Voluble stem Bot., a stem that climbs by winding, or twining, round another body.
-- Vol*u*ble*ness, n. -- Vol*u*bly, adv.
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volubly
adv : in a chatty manner; "`when I was a girl,' she said chattily,
`I used to ride a bicycle'" [syn: chattily]