Apprehension

1. n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
2. n. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
3. n. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
4. n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
5. n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
6. n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.