- (n.) The thoughts or series of thoughts or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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