Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ (nowrap) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? Im sure I dont want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.
1839, (w), ‘William Wilson’:
I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.
*1978, (w), God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 160:
The new friends … knew nothing and did not particularly care to hear about the beautiful mother with her long, meaning looks and liquid dresses and distant smile.