Knowledge; understanding; wits, senses.

Understanding, intelligence; perception.

(Without article.) Power or ability to understand; intellect, intelligence. Sometimes spec. = 1c.

Ability, power; health.

Discretion, intelligence, reason.

Wisdom, cleverness; skill, ingenuity.

Intellectual power, intellect, sense, thought, imagination. Cf. brain power n. at compounds 1a(b).

The capacity or faculty of knowing; wit, wisdom, intelligence. Obsolete.

An adviser, counsellor.

Knowingness; skilfulness, skill, cleverness; something requiring skill; = cunning, n.1 2–4.

Intelligence, insight, sound judgement. Obsolete.

Understanding as a quality admitting of degree; spec. quickness or superiority of understanding, sagacity.

The faculty or power of seeing; sight, vision, esp. intelligent or comprehending vision. Now archaic.

Intellectual capacity, mental ability; genius, talent, cleverness, ingenuity.

= cunningness, n. 1.

Mental or intellectual receiving power; ability to grasp or take in impressions, ideas, knowledge.

Fertility of the mind, inventiveness, imagination, resourcefulness; quickness or readiness of wit. Now rare.

Mental adroitness or skill; ‘readiness of expedient, quickness of contrivance, skill of management’ (Johnson); cleverness, address, ready tact…

= pregnancy, n.1 (in various senses).

Faculty of contrivance, resourcefulness. rare. Cf. shiftless, adj.

The quality or character of being witty; †intelligence, sagacity; †cleverness, ingenuity; †wisdom, good sense, etc. (see witty, adj. 2–8).

The quality of being ingenious; cleverness, ingenuity.

Cleverness, intelligence; wit. Obsolete.

The intellect, intelligence; a person's mind or brain.

Capacity for accommodating or containing something; extent, size. Obsolete. rare.

The quality of being ingenious; ingenuity.

The quality of being dexterous or adroit in mind or body; dexterity.

collective singular (without a or plural). Mental power or ability; cleverness.

Used by confusion for ingeniousness (= ingenuity, n. II.). Obsolete.

Intellectual capacity; intelligence, sense, good judgement; normal condition of the mental faculties; (one's) senses or wits. Obsolete.

the condition of possessing talents or accomplishments.

The quality of being intelligent and quick-witted.

cleverness, ingenuity.

Cleverness; amusingness. Obsolete.

slang. An aptitude for calculation or forethought; shrewdness, intelligence. Esp. in to have a long head. Now rare.

In singular and (usually) in plural. A wading bird of the genus Himantopus; a stilt. Obsolete.

The quality of being clever.

Intelligence, cleverness; astuteness, shrewdness.

Cleverness.

Cleverness, intelligence, acuteness; the quality of having brains.

cerebral or intellectual quality, cleverness.