Part 3465

<blockquote>There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a <b>dream</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It is not them a mere <b>dream</b>, but a very real aim which they propose. <i>J. C. Shairp.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Dream</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dreamed</er> <tt>(?)</tt> or <er>Dreamt</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dreaming</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. AS. <ets>dr<?/man</ets>, <ets>dr<?/man</ets>, to rejoice. See <er>Dream</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with <i>of</i>; <as>as, to <ex>dream</ex> of a battle, or of an absent friend</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.</def>

<blockquote>Here may we sit and <b>dream</b> Over the heavenly theme. <i>Keble.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They <b>dream</b> on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Dream</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.</def>

<blockquote>Your old men shall <b>dream</b> dreams. <i>Acts ii. 17.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And <b>dreamt</b> the future fight. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And still they <b>dream</b> that they shall still succeed. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>To dream away</col>, <col>out</col>, <col>through</col></mcol>, <cd>etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to <i>dream away<i> an hour; to <i>dream through<i> life. " Why does Antony <i>dream out<i> his hours?"</cd></cs>

<i>Dryden.</i>

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<hw>Dream"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who dreams.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; <as>as, a political <ex>dreamer</ex></as>.</def>

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<hw>Dream"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of dreams.</def> " <i>Dreamful</i> ease." <i>Tennyson</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Dream"ful*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

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<hw>Dream"i*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly.</def>

<i>Longfellow.</i>

<h1>Dreaminess</h1> <Xpage=453>

<hw>Dream"i*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being dreamy.</def>

<h1>Dreamingly</h1> <Xpage=453>

<hw>Dream"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a dreamy manner.</def>

<h1>Dreamland</h1> <Xpage=453>