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Think sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Think sb. dial. or colloq. [f. THINK v.2]

1   1.  An act of (continued) thinking; a meditation.

2 1834.  Tait’s Mag., I. 426/1. We lie lown yonder … and have time for our ain think.

3 1870.  Mrs. Whitney, We Girls, ii. Ruth did talk … when she came out of one of her thinks.

4 1891.  Fenn, Mahme Nousie, II. v. 73. Let’s have a cigar and a quiet think.

5 1896.  Louise I Guiney, Lett., 3 June, in Bookman (1922), LV. 592/2. I think not, I think not, in any sense at all; yet who am I to have a think on that ground?

6   b.  nonce-use. An idea, a thought.

7 1886.  Maudsley, Nat. Causes & Supernat. Seemings, 33. To every one a thing is … what he thinks it—in effect, a think.

8 1887.  G. Macdonald, Home Again, iv. A thing must be a think before it be a thing.

9   2.  What one thinks about something; an opinion.

10 1835.  Lady Granville, Lett. (1894), II. 187. My own private think is that he will execute another voluntary.

11 1861.  J. Brown, Horæ Subs., Ser. II. 355. The cobbler … dispenses his ’think’ … to all comers on all subjects.

12   3.  attrib. and Comb. (nonce-wds.), as thinkache, pain of thought, mental suffering; think-room, a room or apartment for meditation.

13 1892.  Bridger, Depression, p. v. Each separate thinkache enumerated by my depressed patients.

14 1906.  Month, July, 72. Castle, work-room, think-room.

15 1914.  W. C. Bagley, School Discipline, xii. 199–200. ‘Solitary Treatment.’—In at least one modern elementary school building a room is provided known as the ‘think room’ for the reception of these cases.

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