Hypertext Webster Gateway: "thinking"
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) 1.7 (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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