DREAM
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Dream (dr&ē;m), n. [Akin to OS. dr&ō;m, D. droom, G. traum, Icel. draumr, Dan. & Sw. dr&ö;m; cf. G. tr&ü;gen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr&ō;m joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. qry^los noise.] 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.
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Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
Dryden.
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I had a dream which was not all a dream.
Byron.
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2. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.
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There sober thought pursued the amusing theme,
Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream.
Pope.
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It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose.
J. C. Shairp.
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Dream, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dreamed (dr&ē;md) or Dreamt (drĕmt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.] [Cf. AS. dr&ē;man, dr&ymacr_;man, to rejoice. See Dream, n.] 1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.
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2. 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.
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Here may we sit and dream
Over the heavenly theme
. Keble.
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They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting
. Locke.
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Dream, v. t. To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.
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Your old men shall dream dreams
. Acts ii. 17.
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At length in sleep their bodies they compose,
And dreamt the future fight
. Dryden.
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And still they dream that they shall still succeed
. Cowper.
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To dream away To dream out, To dream 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.
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