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Skillful; dexterous; clever. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles. [Written also endecagon.]

A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.

Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.

A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.

Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid.

One who apprehends.

One who reprehends.

Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound and abstruse topics. Milman.

Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.

To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic] We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor.

Capable of being apprehended or conceived. "Apprehensible by faith." Bp. Hall. -- Ap`*pre*hen"si*bly, adv.

er which holds coals; consequently the cooking is done from above, as well as below. Mrs. Henderson.

in contrast with rent, or income. "For loss of catel may recovered be, But loss of tyme shendeth us," quod he. Chaucer.

Capable of being known or apprehended; as, cognizable causes.

e, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire. Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure. Is. xl. 12.

Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised. Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. Bacon.

Intelligibly; in a manner to be comprehended or understood.

That which is comrehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome. [Obs.] Though not a catalogue of fundamentals, yet . . . a comprehension of them. Chillingworth.