Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-SIGN'ING
DE-SIGN'ING, ppr.
- Forming a design; planning; delineating the outline; drawing figures on a plane.
- adj. In an ill sense, artful; insidious; intriguing; contriving schemes of mischief: hence, deceitful. Designing men are always liable to suspicion.
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