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Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.

movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.

Filled with fancies or imaginations. [Obs.] Shak.

Same as Phantasm.

One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. [R.] Coleridge.

Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.

The quality of being fantastic.

Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.

Fantastically. [Obs.]

In a fantastic manner. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.

Fantastically. [Obs.]

Fantasticalness. [Obs.]

A fantastic. [Obs.] Shak.

Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. Is not this something more than fantasy Shak. A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. Milton.

State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [Prov. Eng.] Dickens.

Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.

State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also, indisposition; pet; sulks. [Slang]

See Phantom. Fantom corn, phantom corn. Grose.

One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds.