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Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.

tual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent. Life . . . is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Shak.

A complicated and embarrassing state of things; a serious misunderstanding. Wrestling to free itself from the baleful imbroglio. Carlyle.

icable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others. Health and understanding are incommunicable. Southey. Those incommunicable relations of the divine love. South. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*bly, adv.

Want of comprehension or understanding. "These mazes and incomprehensions." Bacon.

Not comprehensive; not capable of including or of understanding; not extensive; limited. -- In*com`pre*hen"sive*ly, a. Sir W. Hamilton. -- In*com`pre*hen"sive*ness, n. T. Warton.

Indefiniteness; vagueness; also, number or quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite. [Obs.] Sir M . Hale.

dom and goodness of God; -- opposed to finite. Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite. Ps. cxlvii. 5. O God, how infinite thou art! I. Watts.

." Milton. As pleasing to the fancy, as speculations of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding. Addison.

To make to understand; to instruct. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

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.

Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person. Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity Milton.…

One who overrates the importance of the understanding. [R.] Bacon.

The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." Milton.

Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. [Obs.] Spenser.

The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument.