Author: Dell Deaton

1. a conception of or belief about something: children have different notions about the roles their parents; I had no notion of what her words meant.
2. an impulse or desire, especially one of a whimsical kind: she had a notion to ring her friend at work.
3. items used in sewing, such as buttons, pins, and hooks.

— Oxford Dictionary of English

• read (something), typically in a thorough or careful way: he has spent countless hours in libraries perusing art history books and catalogues.
• examine carefully or at length: Laura perused a Caravaggio.

— Oxford Dictionary of English

Medicine: a partial loss of vision or blind spot in an otherwise normal field of vision.

— Oxford Dictionary of English

: man-eater, cannibal

— Merriam-Webster