1.Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought. "God made... every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind." "He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt." "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
2.An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material. "Ye meads and groves, unconscious things!"
3.A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed. "(And Jacob said) All these things are against me." "Which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things."
4.A portion or part; something. "Wicked men who understand any thing of wisdom."
5.A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; often used in pity or contempt. "See, sons, what things you are!" "The poor thing sighed, and... turned from me." "I'll be this abject thing no more." "I have a thing in prose."
6.pl. Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things. (Colloq.) Note: Formerly, the singular was sometimes used in a plural or collective sense. "And them she gave her moebles and her thing." Note: 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." "Hearkening his minstrels their things play."
7.(Law) Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; distinguished from person.
8.In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.
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