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), 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.
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.
Dreamer
(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.
Dreamful
(Dream"ful) a. Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." Tennyson. — Dream"ful*ly, adv.
Dreamily
(Dream"i*ly) adv. As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.
Dreaminess
(Dream"i*ness), n. The state of being dreamy.
Dreamingly
(Dream"ing*ly), adv. In a dreamy manner.
Dreamland
(Dream"land`) n. An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region
of fancies; fairyland.
[He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay.
Lowell. Dreamless
(Dream"less), a. Free from, or without, dreams. Camden. — Dream"less*ly, adv.
Dreamy
(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
(Drear) a. [See Dreary.] Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
Drear
(Drear), n. Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] Spenser.
Drearihead
(Drear"i*head) Drearihood
(Drear"i*hood) n. Affliction; dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.
Drearily
(Drear"i*ly), adv. Gloomily; dismally.
Dreariment
(Drear"i*ment) n. Dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.