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A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.

Careful consideration; pondering. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Perpension. [Obs.]

See Frenzied.

Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See Frenzy.

The act of foreshowing; foreboding. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being seized.

Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.

The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.

Adapted to seize or grasp; prehensile.

One of a religious order of regular canons founded by St. Norbert at Prémontré, in France, in 1119. The members of the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants.

The act of seizing with violence. [Obs.] Barrow .

To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate. [Obs.] Spenser. Sir T. Elyot.

In a premeditated manner.

Previous sensation, notion, or idea. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Previous perception. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension. Spenser. Primogeniture can not have any pretense to a right of solely inheriting property or power. Locke. I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to the wardenship of Merton College, Oxford. Evelyn.

Pretended; feigned. [Obs.] -- Pre*tens"ed*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Abounding in pretenses.