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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Think  \Think\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Thought};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Thinking}.]  [OE.  thinken,  properly,  to  seem,  from  AS 
  [thorn]yncean  (cf.  {Methinks}),  but  confounded  with  OE 
  thenken  to  think,  fr  AS  [thorn]encean  (imp. 
  [thorn][=o]hte);  akin  to  D.  denken  dunken,  OS  thenkian 
  thunkian  G.  denken  d["u]nken,  Icel.  [thorn]ekkja  to 
  perceive,  to  know  [thorn]ykkja  to  seem,  Goth.  [thorn]agkjan, 
  [thorn]aggkjan,  to  think,  [thorn]ygkjan  to  think,  to  seem, 
  OL  tongere  to  know  Cf  {Thank},  {Thought}.] 
  1.  To  seem  or  appear;  --  used  chiefly  in  the  expressions 
  methinketh  or  methinks,  and  methought. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Thinking  \Think"ing\,  a. 
  Having  the  faculty  of  thought;  cogitative;  capable  of  a 
  regular  train  of  ideas;  as  man  is  a  thinking  being  -- 
  {Think"ing*ly},  adv 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Thinking  \Think"ing\,  n. 
  The  act  of  thinking;  mode  of  thinking;  imagination; 
  cogitation;  judgment. 
 
  I  heard  a  bird  so  sing,  Whose  music,  to  my  thinking, 
  pleased  the  king.  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  thinking 
  adj  1:  given  to  cogitation;  "he  looked  at  me  with  cogitative  eyes" 
  [syn:  {cogitative},  {thinking(a)}] 
  2:  endowed  with  the  capacity  to  reason  [syn:  {intelligent},  {reasoning(a)}, 
  {thinking(a)}] 
  n  :  the  process  of  thinking  (especially  thinking  carefully); 
  "thinking  always  made  him  frown";  "she  paused  for 
  thought"  [syn:  {thought},  {cerebration},  {intellection}, 
  {mentation}]




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