senseSENSE, n. [from L. sensus, from sentio, to feel or perceive.] 1. The faculty of the soul by which it perceives external objects by means of impressions made on certain organs of the boky. Sense is a branch of perception. the five senses of animals are sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. 2. Sensation; perception by the senses. 3. Perception by the intellect; apprehension; discernment. 4. Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception. 5. Understanding; soundness of faculties; strength of natural reason. Opprest nature sleeps; This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses. Shak. 6. Reason; reasonable or rational meaning. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. Dryden. 7. Opinion; notion; judgement. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. Roscommon. 8. Consciousness; conviction; as a due sense of our weakness or sinfulness. 9. Moral perception. Some are so hardened in wickedness, as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. |