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y marks or notæ. What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles. Sir I. Newton. Few agree in their notions about these words. Cheyne. That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc. I. Watts…

Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.

A notional or groundless opinion. [R.] Glanvill.

In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality. Two faculties . . . notionally or really distinct. Norris.

Notional. [R.]

One whose opinions are ungrounded notions. [R.] Bp. Hopkins.

Distinguishing mark; diagnostic. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge. Bacon.

An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.

oid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent. -- Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus). -- Adam's needle (Bot.), the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of l…

taining to Adam, or resembling him. Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.

no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. "Airy fame." Shak. Empty sound, and airy notions. Roscommon.

A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. [R.] Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.

Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifæ, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle.

A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word. [R.] J. R. Seeley.

God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

Hasty notion; intuitive preconception. Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds. Locke.

Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.

h), whose remains occur in the oölite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.