\In`tu*i"tion\, n. [L. intuitus, p. p. of intueri to
look on; in- in, on + tueri: cf. F. intuition. See
{Tuition}.]
1. A looking after; a regard to. [Obs.]

         What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an
         intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not
         the cause, of his pains.              --Fuller.

2. Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as
   in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from
   ``mediate'' knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows
   by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not
   a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or
   ready insight or apprehension.

         Sagacity and a nameless something more, -- let us
         call it intuition.                    --Hawthorne.

3. Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition;
   especially, a first or primary truth.