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Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like.

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton.

One who predicts. Boyle.

An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis.

Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis. -- n.

The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.

Pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs.

A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base.

Formed by hydrogen and tellurium; as, hydrotelluric acid, or hydrogen telluride.

A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting.

Confined or inclosed in a castle.

Hoofbound. Crabb.

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.…

Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities. [R.] In body, and in bristles, they became As swine, yet intellected as before. Cowper.

A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. Hickok.

Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.

In an intellective manner. [R.] "Not intellectivelly to write." Warner.

Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts.

Intellectual power; intellectuality.

One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.