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To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. [Obs.] "I mette of him all night." Chaucer.

of Mete, to dream. Chaucer.

; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe. Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott.

Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep. Keats.

The god of dreams.

A dreamer; an absent-minded person. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

ar or specific designation. For the excellency of the soul, namely, its power of divining dreams; that several such divinations have been made, none Addison.

ess. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.

chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus. Dunglison.

strife ... between me and thee. Gen. xiii. 8. That goodness is no name, and happiness no dream. Byron.

nstrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's "Midsummer-Night's Dream" music.

To be drowsy or dull; to be careless. Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. Pope.

gentil women bee Loth to displease any wight, Notwithstanding our great right. Chaucer's Dream. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done. Dr. H. More.

ingle unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual. The dream of Pharaoh is one. Gen. xli. 25. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England. Shak.

An interpreter of dreams. Bp. Warburton. Addison.

Of or pertaining to the interpretation of dreams. Addison.

The art of interpreting dreams.

Divination by means of dreams. De Quincey.

One who interprets dreams.

The interpretation of dreams.