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adowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. They be but phantasms or apparitions. Sir W. Raleigh.

A phantasm.

Fig.: A medley of figures; illusive images. "This mental phantasmagoria." Sir W. Scott.

Of, relating to, or resembling phantasmagoria; phantasmagoric.

Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial. Hawthorne.

See Phantasmagoria.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.

See Phantascope.

Phantasmal. Dr. H. More.

A description of celestial phenomena, as rainbows, etc.

A phantasmic or "astral" body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelgänger.

Same as Phantasm.

Appearance or image; a phantasm; a spectral image; also, a mental image or idea.

The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms. The imagery of a melancholic fancy. Atterbury.

The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc. All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream. Shak.

toy, resembling the phenakistoscope, and illustrating the same principle; -- called also phantasmascope.

That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image. Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise. Pope. She was a phantom of delight. Wordsworth. Phantom ship. See Flying Dutchman, under Flying. -- Phantom tumor (Med.), a swelling, especially of the…

Phantasmal. [R.] Coleridge.