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Disagreement; misunderstanding. [Obs.]

Wrong understanding; misconstruction. [Obs.] Spenser.

gment; to commit an unintentional error. Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends. Swift.

dow land. Mowing machine, an agricultural machine armed with knives or blades for cutting standing grass, etc. It is drawn by a horse or horses, or propelled by steam.

in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague. Cold hearts and muddy understandings. Burke. Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled. Shak.

Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious. Heaven's numerous hierarchy span The mystic gulf from God to man. Emerson. God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural. Hooker.

ed; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views. "A narrow understanding." Macaulay.

One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot. "The minds of naturals." Locke.

Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11.

Of or pertaining to the understanding. [Obs.] Cudworth.

The science of the understanding; intellectual science.

Notwithstanding; in opposition to, or in spite of, what has been stated, or is to be stated or admitted.

decide; puzzle; quandary. Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding. South.

Intellect; understanding; talent; -- used humorously.

versely, etc.; also, as a simple intensive; as in oblige, to bind to; obstacle, something standing before; object, lit., to throw against; obovate, reversely, ovate. Ob- is commonly assimilated before c, f, g, and p, to oc-, of-, og-, and op-.

Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line (Geom.), a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure or problem, but not to appear in the finished plan. -- Occult qu…

m. Swift. All the odds between them has been the different s "cope....given to their understandings to range in. Locke. Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie. Locke.

the Jewel in the Lotus, Amen," and referring to Amitabha, who is commonly represented as standing or sitting within a lotus.

ent in regard to any point of knowledge or action. Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persussion than to another, yet not without a mixture of incertainty or doubting. Sir M. Hale. I can not put off my opinion so easily. Shak.…

Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.