The direction of a musket, cannon, or any other fire-arm or missile weapon towards its object.
♦ To take aim, directing the piece to the object.
·vi Conjecture; guess. II. Aim ·vi To guess or conjecture. III. Aim ·vi Intention; purpose; design...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
to design ; as, I aim to do so and so. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose