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The silver moonfish (Selene vomer).

The hide of a horse.

well under the same roof and compose a family. And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers. Swift.

ad of a family; one who occupies a house with his family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

Humble condition or estate; humility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Not apprehensible; unintelligible; inconceivable. Milton.

Want of apprehension.

Not apprehensive; regardless; unconcerned. Jer. Taylor.

Incomprehensible. [Obs.] "Incomprehense in virtue." Marston.

The quality of being incomprehensible, or beyond the reach of human intellect; incomprehensibleness; inconceivability; inexplicability. The constant, universal sense of all antiquity unanimously confessing an incomprehensibility in many of the articles of the Christian faith. South.

Not capable of being contained within limits. An infinite and incomprehensible substance. Hooker.

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.

The property or state of being indehiscent.

Remaining closed at maturity, or not opening along regular lines, as the acorn, or a cocoanut.

Incapable of being found out. Bp. Morton.

Not reprehensible; blameless; innocent. -- Ir*rep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rep`re*hen"si*bly, adv.

A Scripture name of the Supreme Being, by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the "ineffable name" of the Supreme Being, which was not pronounced by the Jews.

One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; -- opposed to adonist.

Relating to, or containing, Jehovah, as a name of God; -- said of certain parts of the Old Testament, especially of the Pentateuch, in which Jehovah appears as the name of the Deity. See Elohistic.