[f. AIM v. + -ING2.] Directing oneself, or a missile, towards an object; designing, intending, tending towards, with, or as the result of, calculation or design.
1643. Milton, Divorce, I. vi. (1847), 129/1. Love … having but one eye, being born an archer aiming.
c. 1746. Hervey, Medit. & Contempl. (1818), 24. The blow came from an aiming, though invisible hand.
