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

The science of the understanding; intellectual science.

Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.

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

r crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene.

but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts." Ray. (b) Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he said.

enon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers.

Intellect; understanding; talent; -- used humorously.

Such appearances are supposed to result from cosmic collisions, as of a dark star with interstellar nebulosities. The most important modern novæ are: -- No"va Co*ro"næ Bo`re*a"lis [1866]; No"va Cyg"ni [1876]; No"va An*dro"me*dæ [1885]; No"va Au*ri"gæ [1891-92]; No"va Per"se*i [1901]. There are two novæ called Nova Pers…

Belief in, or the practice of, the obi superstitions and rites.

Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription.

Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark. Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye. Pope.

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…

hem. 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.

gment 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.…

Overstocked, or overgrown, or covered, with grass. [Obs.] Spenser.

de beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.

the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions. And all the rites of pagan honor paid. Dryden.

y with reference to the earth's center. This is the kind of parallax that is generally understood when the term is used without qualification. -- Heliocentric parallax, the parallax of a body with reference to the sun, or the angle subtended at the body by lines drawn from it to the earth and sun; as, the heliocentric…

us denial or contradiction; as, I crave your pardon; or in indicating that one has not understood another; as, I beg pardon.