meanin

"A syllogism is a word meanin 'the same as another word, like as if I was to say _caballo_ for _horse_ or _six-shooter_ for _revolver_."

Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

So they and the Eagle folks together undertook to form this new thing, the Development Company, the name meanin 'nothin' or a whole lot, 'cordin' to how the development developed, I presume likely.

Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Ochone = a gaelic word meanin "Woe is me" gowd = gold hae = have wi 'a richt guid will = with a right goodwill

Will Ye Gang, Love 1997

For the sight was full o 'meanin', an 'we knew, when it had gone,

A Heap O' Livin' 1920

"'Fulness thereof' meanin 'jest what, Mr. Geoffrey?"

The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

'But it sounds like they was sayin' something nasty, an 'meanin' it all. '

Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

An 'sez I,' Why, to be sartin sure, I will, 'meanin' of course, while I was courtin '.

The Miller Of Old Church Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

He's been waitin 'for her, an' meanin 'to have her, all along.

'Drag' Harlan Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

'Humph!' says I, 'the only kind of aches I have is them in my bones,' meanin 'my rheumatiz, you understand.

Shavings Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

When General Rolleson came there and says to his daughter, 'Helen, you come home along of me,' and she says, 'No, I shan't leave him,' meanin 'Robert Penfold, you understand -- When she says that did Robert Penfold say,' That's the talk!

The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907