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Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.

Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy. Art thou good at these kickshawses! Shak.

Fantastic; restless; as, kicksy-wicksy flames. Nares.

erit hath my duty strongly knit. Shak. Come , knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. Milton. A link among the days, toknit The generations each to each. Tennyson.

To play on a lute, or as on a lute. Knaves are men That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. Tennyson.

To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious. [Obs.]

d or pronounced. Some things good, and some things ill, do seem, And neutral some, in her fantastic eye. Sir J. Davies.

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and ethical conception of the laws and forces of the universe; sometimes, imaginative or fantastic philosophical notions.

To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically. "And prink their hair with daisies." Cowper.

Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.

A circular dance. Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. Milton.

To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion. The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile. I. Taylor. She smoothed the ruffled seas. Dryden.

would he skip and play Pope. So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. Hawthorne.

To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out. " Trick her off in air." Pope. People lavish it profusely in tricking up their children in fine clothes, and yet starve their minds. Locke. They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little trick…

s horse anon began to trip and dance. Chaucer. Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe. Milton. She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight. Dryden.

To fill with whimseys, or whims; to make fantastic; to craze. [R.] To have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth. J. Fletcher.

Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic. "A whimsical chair." Evelyn.