The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future.
The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.
Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment
The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
A written work, usually a novel, which is sufficiently interesting or suspenseful to keep the reader 'turning the pages'.