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The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.

To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand. At a loss to comprehend the question. W. Irwing. Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend. Job. xxxvii. 5.

The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.

ean powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time. They [astrologers] undertook . . . to determine the course of a man's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. Whewell.

s, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.

ing. They . . . spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Acts xiii. 45.

nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, whereit is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions. Piers plowman. A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes. Bp. Burnet.

Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien. So spake the Son, and into terror changed His countenance. Milton.

To eat greedly, and to satiety; to stuff. Gluttony . . . . Cr, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton.

a pole in nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. Wordsworth.

The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.

An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. W. Irving.

g the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson.

A plant of the genus Asphodelus.

The mud wasp; the mud dauber.

An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36º.

Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.

the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

ially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.