‖n. pl. [ It., sing. dentello, prop., little tooth, dim. of dente tooth, L. dens, dentis. Cf. Dentil. ] Modillions. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. intelligence, L. intelligentia, intellegentia. See Intelligent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. [ 1913 Webster ]

And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Information communicated; news; notice; advice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Intelligence is given where you are hid. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information. Specifically; (Mil.) Information about an enemy or potential enemy, his capacities, and intentions. [ 1913 Webster ]

I write as he that none intelligence
Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence. Court of Love. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great Intelligences fair
That range above our mortal state,
In circle round the blessed gate,
Received and gave him welcome there. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mil.) The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy. [ PJC ]

Intelligence office, an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.

Syn. -- Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Informing; giving information; talebearing. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That sad intelligencing tyrant. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Intelligence. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intelligens, intellegens, -entis, p. pr. of intelligere, intellegere, to perceive; inter between + legere to gather, collect, choose: cf. F. intelligent. See Legend. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Possessed of a high level of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; exhibiting high intelligence; as, an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cognizant; aware; communicative. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Intelligent of seasons. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which are to France the spies and speculations
Intelligent of our state. Shak.

Syn. -- Sensible; understanding. See Sensible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. intelligentiel. ] [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. “With act intelligential.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Food alike those pure
Intelligential substances require. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gives information; an intelligencer. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an intelligent manner; with intelligence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an educated and intellectual{ 2 } elite; intellectuals, collectively or considered as a class. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

[ Cf. F. intelligilibilité. ] The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. intellegibilis: cf. F. intelligible. See Intelligent. ] Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The intelligible forms of ancient poets. Coleridge.

Syn. -- Comprehensible; perspicuous; plain; clear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being intelligible; intelligibility. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.

n. 1. Wrong information; misinformation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disagreement; misunderstanding. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Patella + form: cf. F. pattelliforme. ] 1. Having the form of a patella. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Resembling a limpet of the genus Patella. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. peri- + vitelline. ] (Biol.) Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. satelles, -itis, an attendant. ] 1. An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent. “The satellites of power.” I. Disraeli. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) A secondary planet which revolves about another planet; as, the moon is a satellite of the earth. See Solar system, under Solar. [ 1913 Webster ]

Satellite moth (Zool.), a handsome European noctuid moth (Scopelosoma satellitia). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or consisting of, satellites. [ R. ] Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. scutella a dish + -form. ] 1. Scutellate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having the form of a scutellum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. scutellus a shield + planta foot. ] (Zool.) Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. stellifer; stella star + ferre to bear. ] Having, or abounding with, stars. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. stella a star + -form. ] Like a star; star-shaped; radiated. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. stella a star + -fy. ] To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven. [ Obs. or R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. stellio a newt having starlike spots on its back, fr. stella a star. ] (Zool.) A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. stellionatus cozenage, trickery, fr. stellio a newt, a crafty, knavish person. ] (Scots & Roman Law) Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc. Erskine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being accustomed to tell stories. -- n. The act or practice of telling stories. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a kind of shellfish. ] (Zool.) A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech. -- Tell"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

See high.
See honorable.
See hopeful.
See hostile.
See hurt.
See hhurtful.
See hygienic.
See ideal.
See idle.
See illusory.
See imaginable.
See imaginative.
See immortal.
See implicit.
See important.
See impressible. See >Unimpressible.
See impressionable.
See improvable.
See impugnable.
See incidental.
See increasable.
See indifferent.
See indulgent.
See industrious.
See inflammable.
See influential.
See ingenious.
See ingenuous.
See inhabitable.
See injurious.
See inquisitive.
See instructive.
See intelligent.
See intelligible.
See intentional.
See interesting.
See interpretable.
See inventive.
See investigable.
See jealous.
See joyful.
See joyous.
See justifiable.
See kingly.
See knightly.
See knotty.
See knowable.
See laborious.
See ladylike.
See level.
See libidinous.
See lightsome.
See limber.
See lineal.
See logical.
See lordly.
See losable.
See lovable.
See lucent.
See luminous.
See lustrous.
See lusty.
See maidenly.
See makable.
See malleable.
See manageable.
See manful.
See manlike.
See manly.
See marketable.
See marriable.
See marriageable.
See marvelous.
See masculine.
See matchable.
See matronlike.
See meek.
See meet.
See melodious.
See mendable.
See mentionable.
See mercenary.
See merciable.
See meritable.
See merry.
See metaphorical.
See mighty.
See mild.
See military.
See mindful.
See mingleable.
See miraculous.
See miry.
See mitigable.
See modifiable.
See modish.
See moist.
See monkish.
See motherly.
See muscular.
See musical.
See mysterious.
See namable.
See native.
See navigable.
See needful.
See negotiable.
See niggard.
See noble.
See objectionable.
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a. (Zool.) Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Vitellus. ] (Physiol. Chem.) An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can be separated in crystalline form. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. [ L. vitellus the yolk of an egg. ] (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus. [ 1913 Webster ]