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Dream

Dream (dream)
n.(dr***emacr]m)
Dream
[Akin to OS. dr1913 webster dictionarym, D. droom, G. traum, Icel. draumr, Dan. *** Sw. drö]m; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy,
  1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

    Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. Dryden.

    I had a dream which was not all a dream. Byron.

  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.

    There sober thought pursued the amusing theme,
    Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream.
    Pope.

    It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. J. C. Shairp.


Dream

Dream (dream)
v. i.
Dream
  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.
  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.

    Here may we sit and dream
    Over the heavenly theme
    . Keble.

    They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. Locke.


Dream

Dream (dream)
v. t.
Dream
  1. To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.

    Your old men shall dream dreams. Acts ii. 17.

    At length in sleep their bodies they compose,
    And dreamt the future fight
    . Dryden.

    And still they dream that they shall still succeed. 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.














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