to have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.-to be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, i understand that congress has passed the bill.-to recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.-to mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.-to stand under; to support.-to have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.-to be informed; to have or receive knowledge.