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oughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. Dryden. I had a dream which was not all a dream. Byron.

One who dreams.

Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." Tennyson. -- Dream"ful*ly, adv.

As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.

The state of being dreamy.

In a dreamy manner.

An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. [He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.

Free from, or without, dreams. Camden. -- Dream"less*ly, adv.

Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.

Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]

ncy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope. Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over. Thackeray.

One given to draydreams.

A dreamy, idle fellow. Shak.

To pass, or escape, while dreaming. "To oultdream dangers." Beau. & Fl.

Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.

ct flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

ontradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope. p. 9

etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

d priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.