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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.

A frolic; a vagary; a whim. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion. [Obs.] A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity. South.

A caper; a spring; a whim. [Scot.]

A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice. She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation. Spectator.

Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n.

Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike; wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic. "Grotesque design." Dryden. "Grotesque incidents." Macaulay.

Pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical.[Colloq.] Sterne.

Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims. Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion Has he not humors to be endured South.

One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways. He [Roger de Coverley] . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life. Addison.

Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical. Hawthorne. Rough as a storm and humorous as the wind. Dryden.

Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy.

Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke.

The art, or trade, of a joiner; the work of a joiner. A piece of joinery . . . whimsically dovetailed. Burke.

An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice. [Colloq.] Cozzens.

A whim; an odd fancy. Hudibras. Tennyson.

Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.

Full of whims; capricious. Norris.

The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl, May curlew, and May whaap.

A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits. These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies. Ford.