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A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements, etc.

Notification; information; intelligence. [Obs.] The king . . . shall have note of this. Shak.

Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge given or received; means of knowledge; express notification; announcement; warning. I . . . have given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here. Shak.

in case of need; in necessity; as convenience requires; occasionally. "That we might have intelligence from him on occasion," De Foe.

t, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.

The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. Sir T. Browne.

lgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence, -- this is Philistinism. M. Arnold.

A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.

That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the productions of intellect or genius.

To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence. [Obs. or Scot.] Foxe.

rank or degree; an order; a class. The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences. Sir M. Hale.

The faculty of capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the int…

Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.

their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free. Milton. HIs clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time. J. Morley.

nnumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences Buckminster.

life by them. The Puritan was a Scripturist with all his heart, if as yet with imperfect intelligence . . . he cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory. Palfrey.

ellow to converse with in the world. Pope. The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious. Sir W. Hamilton.

"Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish." (d) When the substantive is emphasized: "Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning…

Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.

With intelligence or good sense; judiciously.