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To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind. Dryden.

ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them. Palfrey. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. Burke. To truck and higgle for a private good. Emerson.

To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being. Imparadised in you, in whom alone I understand, and grow, and see. Donne.

Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. J. Hawes.

A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.

Not indicating intelligence or sense; senseless; expressionless; as, an unmeaning face. There pride sits blazoned on the unmeaning brow. Trumbull. -- Un*mean"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*mean"ing*ness, n.

the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury. [Obs.] Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him. Jer. Taylor.

The basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war. Brande & C.

the universe is the activity of a blind and irrational will, Fichte holding that the intelligent activity of the ego is the fundamental fact of reality.

The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as night Only for wantonness. Shak.

A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.

Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.

rectly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.

r sharpening, edge tools. The dullness of the fools is the whetstone of the wits. Shak. Diligence is to the understanding as the whetstone to the razor. South.

A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly; hence; a backbiter; one who slanders secretly. Prov. xvi. 28.

lusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage. I wolde it do withouten negligence. Chaucer. Wise men will do it without a law. Bacon. Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms . . . must end in our destruction. Addison. There is no living with thee nor without thee. Tatle…

Full of work; diligent. [R.]

on on the mere occurrence of an accident where the common law gives the right only for negligence of the employer.