WOOLGATHERING

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.

2.
n.

Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. Burton.


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