that faculty of the mind by which it embraces or rejects any thing offered to it. See METAPHYSICS.

or Last WILL, in Law, signifies the declaration of a man's mind and intent relating to the disposition of his lands, goods, or other estate, or of what he would have done after his death. In the common law there is a distinction made between a will and a testament: ment: that is called a will where lands or tenements are given; and when the disposition concerns goods and chattels alone, it is termed a testament. See testament.

WILL-with-a-wisp, or Jack with-a-lantern, two popular names for the meteor called ignis satanas. See Light, No. 46.