aiming stand (am in gst and)

Milit., a rest for a gun, used in teaching the theory of aiming. aimle (am'les), a. [ The Turks, half asleep, ran about in aimle confusion. Dryden, Don Sebastian. aimle ly (am'les-li), adv. Without aim; purposele ly. aimle ne (ām'les-nes), n. The state or quality of being without aim or definite purpose. [Thoreau's] whole life was a rebuke of the waste and aimle ne of our American luxury, which is an abject enslavement to tawdry upholstery. 4. To direct or point at something; level: as, ain (an), a . to aim the fist or a blow; to aim a satire or a reflection at some person or vice. Bulls aim their horns, and a es lift their heads. Pope , Im. of Horace, Sat. i. 85. to 5. To give a certain direction and elevation (a gun, cannon, arrow, etc.), for the purpose of causing the projectile, when the weapon is discharged, to hit the object intended to be struck: as, to aim a gun. II. in trans. 11. To estimate; gue ; conjec ture. Rom . In sadne , cousin, I do love a woman. Ben. I aim'd so near, when I suppos'd you lov'd. Shak., R. and J., i. 1. 2. To direct one's intention, purpose, or action, as to the attainment or accomplishment of something; intend; endeavor: as, a man aims at distinction; aim to be just in all you do. The short-sighted policy which aimed at making a nation of saints has made a nation of scoffers. Macaulay , Leigh Hunt. 3. To direct or point anything, as a weapon or mi ile, toward an object. [In all senses aim is used with at or an infinitive before the object to be reached.] To cry aimt, in archery, to encourage the archers by сгуing out "Aim!" when they were about to shoot. Hence it came to mean to applaud or encourage in a general sense, Lowell , Study Windows, p. 209. [Also spelled ane, = E. own1.] Own. [Scotch.] -ain. [ curring unfelt in English nouns, as in chieftain, captain, chaplain, curtain, and, as originally, in adjectives, as in certain, etc. It is a Middle English and Old French form of -an (which see). aince, aines (ans), adv. (