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. Cowper.

To dream away, out, through, etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " Why does Antony dream out his hours?" Dryden.

Dream"er (?), n. 1. One who dreams.

2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

Dream"ful (?), a. Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." Tennyson. -- Dream"ful*ly, adv.

Dream"i*ly (?), adv. As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.

Dream"i*ness, n. The state of being dreamy.

Dream"ing*ly, adv. In a dreamy manner.

Dream"land` (?), n. An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland.

builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay.

Lowell.

Dream"less, a. Free from, or without, dreams. Camden. -- Dream"less*ly, adv.

Dream"y (?), a. [Compar. Dreamier (?); superl. Dreamiest (?).] Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.

Drear (drr), a. [See Dreary.] Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.

Drear, n. Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] Spenser.

{ Drear"i*head (-*hd), Drear"i*hood (-*hd), } n. Affliction; dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Drear"i*ly, adv. Gloomily; dismally.

Drear"i*ment (?), n. Dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Drear"i*ness, n. 1. Sorrow; wretchedness. [Obs.]

2. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.

Drear"ing, n. Sorrow. [Obs.] Spenser.

Drear"i*some (-sm), a. Very dreary. Halliwell.

Drear"y (drr"), a. [Compar. Drearier (?); superl. Dreariest.] [OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dreórig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dreósan to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf. Dross, Drear, Drizzle, Drowse.] 1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] " Dreary shrieks." Spenser.

2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." Dryden. "The dreary ground." Prior.

Full many a dreary anxious hour.

Keble.

Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity.

Macaulay.