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form. Memorandum check, a check given as an acknowledgment of indebtedness, but with the understanding that it will not be presented at bank unless the maker fails to take it up on the day the debt becomes due. It usually has Mem. written on its face.

e mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.]

The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body. By the mind of man we understand that in him which thinks, remembers, reasons, wills. Reid. What we mean by min…

Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.

A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding. Harvey.

To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.

Disagreement; misunderstanding. [Obs.]

Wrong understanding; misconstruction. [Obs.] Spenser.

r judgment; to commit an unintentional error. Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends. Swift.

loudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague. Cold hearts and muddy understandings. Burke. Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled. Shak.

Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious. Heaven's numerous hierarchy span The mystic gulf from God to man. Emerson. God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural. Hooker.

tracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views. "A narrow understanding." Macaulay.

One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot. "The minds of naturals." Locke.

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

The science of the understanding; intellectual science.

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

Intellect; understanding; talent; -- used humorously.

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…

t them. 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.