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

ulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.

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.

on; 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 taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.

One who tastes beforehand, or before another.

al finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale. [Written also jubartas, gubertas, dubertus.]

Having seven seeds.

A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.

That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.

t as an existing being; to hypostatize. [R.] The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. Coleridge.

Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. [R.] Grew.

An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals.