Noah Webster
Thinking
THINK'ING, participle present tense Having ideas; supposing; judging; imagining; intending; meditating.
1. adjective Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas.
Man is a thinking being.
THINK'ING, noun Imagination; cogitation; judgment.
I heard a bird so sing,
Whose music, to my thinking pleas'd the king.