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ines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly understood) "the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life." Many speak of theology as a science of religion [instead of "science of God"] because th…

To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.

A portion or part; something. Wieked men who understand any thing of wisdom. Tillotson.

es by good husbandry. Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold. I. Watts.

A belemnite, or thunderstone. Thunderbolt beetle (Zoöl.), a long-horned beetle (Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black, with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the elytra.

ded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, - - often appearing before a thunderstorm.

d by a particular nation; as, the English tongue. Chaucer. Whose tongue thou shalt not understand. Deut. xxviii. 49. To speak all tongues. Milton.

Superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real or imaginary object; nature worship. Tylor.

To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

fail. "Till his tongue trip." Locke. A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble. South. Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most sec…

hen kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are then put to their last trump. Milton. Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them. W. Irving.

Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world. South.

erce wrath. Ex. xxxii. 12. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways. Ezek. xxxiii. 11. The understanding turns inward on itself, and reflects on its own operations. Locke.

A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vessel having a rounded gunwale and sides curved inward convexly.

To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me [Colloq.] Marryat.

To get under or beneath; also, to understand. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester.

The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.

Not easy; difficult. [R.] Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood. Boyle. The road will be uneasy to find. Sir W. Scott.

The state of being one; oneness. Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity. Locks.

One who affects to understand all the particulars in statements or propositions. [Obs.] Bentley.