Swift.
6. pl. Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store
one's things. [Colloq.]
Formerly, the singular was sometimes used in a plural or collective
sense.
And them she gave her moebles and her thing.
Chaucer.
Thing was used in a very general sense in Old English, and is still
heard colloquially where some more definite term would be used in
careful composition.
In the garden [he] walketh to and fro, And hath his things [i. e.,
prayers, devotions] said full courteously.
Chaucer.
Hearkening his minstrels their things play.
Chaucer.
7. (Law) Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; —
distinguished from person.
8. [In this sense pronounced tng.] In Scandinavian countries, a
legislative or judicial assembly. Longfellow.
Things personal. (Law) Same as Personal property, under Personal. —
Things real. Same as Real property, under Real.
Think (?), 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. þhte); 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.
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.
2. To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple
perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual
faculties.
For that I am I know, because I think.
Dryden.
3. Specifically: — (a) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I
would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.
Well thought upon; I have it here.
Shak.
(b) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to
consider; to deliberate.
And when he thought thereon, he wept.
Mark xiv. 72.
He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no
room where to bestow my fruits?
Luke xii. 17.
(c) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe;
as, I think it will rain to-morrow.
Let them marry to whom they think best.
Num. xxxvi. 6.
(d) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.