I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom.

Roscommon.

The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of

the citizens.

Macaulay.

6. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or

phrases; the sense of a remark.

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the

sense.

Neh. viii. 8.