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Dream v. t. (past & past part. dreamt; pres. part. dreaming) 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". "At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight". "And still they dream that they shall still succeed".

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?"

Dream v. i. (past & past part. dreamt; pres. part. dreaming)

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.

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

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"Dreaming" Quotes from Famous Books

... Chafis One and Two were asleep at the moment, dreaming wistful dreams of conical Ciriimian cities spearing up to a soft and plum-colored sky. The Zid raged into their communal rest cell, smashed them down from their gimbaled sleeping perches and, with the ravening blood-hunger of its kind, devoured them ...

— Traders Risk • Roger Dee

... women. And they have to wait upon the braves or else, when the braves are off fur hunting, they have to plant the crops and catch fish, and even hunt and mend tents, and do such hard work. All that is no delight like dreaming on the moss in the woods, and talking to the birds, and breathing the fragrance all about, and having rushes of delight sweep over you like a waft from the beautiful heaven above. Oh, why should I marry; to think of some one else that I do not ...

— A Little Girl in Old Quebec • Amanda Millie Douglas

... a woman's pen was written by Miss Caroline B. Le Row, of Brooklyn, N.Y., a teacher of elocution, and the writer of many charming stories and verses. It was suggested by a study in butter of "The Dreaming Iolanthe," moulded by Caroline S. Brooks on a kitchen-table, and exhibited at the Centennial in Philadelphia. I do not remember any other poem in the language that rings so many changes on a single word. It was published first in Baldwin's Monthly, ...

— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn

... have rarely ventured to make their story turn on a sentimental love affair. Certainly in real life the wife is taken as a helpmate, or in plain language a worker, rather than as a companion, and the mother-in-law leaves her very little time to indulge in fruitless dreaming. ...

— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

... Synesius placed dreaming above all methods of divining the future; he thought it the surest, and open to the poor and ...

— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

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