v. t. To repent; to displease; to disgust. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bethought p. pr. & vb. n. Bethinking. ] [ AS. beþencan; pref. be- + þencan to think. See Think. ] To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have bethought me of another fault. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

We bethink a means to break it off. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To recollect; remember; reflect. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To think; to recollect; to consider. “Bethink ere thou dismiss us.” Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. chine, AS. cīne fissure, chink, fr. cīnan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout, G. keimen. Cf. Chit. ] A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.
Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From chinaman. ] a chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Chinked p. pr. & vb. n. Chinking. ] To crack; to open. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of imitative origin. Cf. Jingle. ] 1. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. “Chink of bell.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Money; cash. [ Cant ] “To leave his chink to better hands.” Somerville. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. able to think clearly and accurately. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The soul of every man
Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contrive (something) beforehend. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To contrive beforehand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. [ Obs. ] “Let it forthink you.” Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.

Syn. -- Infidel; skeptic; unbeliever. See Infidel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. inclined to forms one's own opinions rather than depend upon authority, especially about social and religious issues; exhibiting boldness of speculation; skeptical of authority.
Syn. -- latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical. [ WordNet 1.5 + 1913 Webster ]

n. A reaping hook. Knight.

v. impers. [ imp. Methought ] [ AS. þyncan to seem, mē þynceð, mē þūhte, OE. me thinketh, me thoughte; akin to G. dünken to seem, denken to think, and E. think. See Me, and Think. ] It seems to me; I think. See Me. [ R., except in poetry. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Think. ] To think wrongly. [ Obs. ] “Adam misthought of her.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To have erroneous thoughts or judgment of; to think ill of. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A popular Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Thought p. pr. & vb. n. Thinking. ] [ OE. thinken, properly, to seem, from AS. þyncean (cf. Methinks), but confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean (imp. þōhte); akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These are genuine Anglo-Saxon expressions, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions me is in the dative case. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties. [ 1913 Webster ]

For that I am
I know, because I think. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Specifically: -- (a) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well thought upon; I have it here. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate. [ 1913 Webster ]

And when he thought thereon, he wept. Mark xiv. 72. [ 1913 Webster ]

He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? Luke xii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let them marry to whom they think best. Num. xxxvi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean. [ 1913 Webster ]

I thought to promote thee unto great honor. Num. xxiv. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou thought'st to help me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(e) To presume; to venture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father. Matt. iii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ To think, in a philosophical use as yet somewhat limited, designates the higher intellectual acts, the acts preeminently rational; to judge; to compare; to reason. Thinking is employed by Hamilton as “comprehending all our collective energies.” It is defined by Mansel as “the act of knowing or judging by means of concepts, ”by Lotze as “the reaction of the mind on the material supplied by external influences.” See Thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

To think better of. See under Better. --
To think much of, or
To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem highly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To expect; guess; cogitate; reflect; ponder; contemplate; meditate; muse; imagine; suppose; believe. See Expect, Guess. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To conceive; to imagine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Charity . . . thinketh no evil. 1 Cor. xiii. 4, 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So little womanhood
And natural goodness, as to think the death
Of her own son. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To believe; to consider; to esteem. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor think superfluous other's aid. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [ Obs. ] “[ He ] thought not much to clothe his enemies.” Milton. --
To think scorn. (a) To disdain. [ Obs. ] “He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone.” Esther iii. 6. (b) To feel indignation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of thinking; a thought. “If you think that I'm finished, you've got another think coming!” [ Obs. or Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

I heard a bird so sing,
Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + bethink. ] To change the mind of (one's self). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + think. ] To recall or take back, as something thought. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. un- + thinker. ] A person who does not think, or does not think wisely. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not thinking; not heedful; thoughtless; inconsiderate; as, unthinking youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not indicating thought or reflection; thoughtless. [ 1913 Webster ]

With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face,
He first the snuffbox opened, then the case. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un*think"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*think"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

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