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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dream \Dream\, v. t. To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause. [1913 Webster] Your old men shall dream dreams. --Acts ii. 17. [1913 Webster] At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] And still they dream that they shall still succeed. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] {To dream away} {To dream out}, {To dream through}, etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " Why does Antony dream out his hours?" --Dryden. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dream \Dream\ (dr[=e]m), n. [Akin to OS. dr[=o]m, D. droom, G. traum, Icel. draumr, Dan. & Sw. dr["o]m; cf. G. tr["u]gen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dre['a]m joy, gladness, and OS. dr[=o]m joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. qry^los noise.] 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. [1913 Webster] Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] I had a dream which was not all a dream. --Byron. [1913 Webster] 2. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. [1913 Webster] There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. --Pope. [1913 Webster] It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. --J. C. Shairp. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dream \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dreamed} (dr[=e]md) or {Dreamt} (dr[e^]mt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dreaming}.] [Cf. AS. dr[=e]man, dr[=y]man, to rejoice. See {Dream}, n.] 1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend. [1913 Webster] 2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine. [1913 Webster] Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme. --Keble. [1913 Webster] They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. --Locke. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: dream n 1: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: {dream}, {dreaming}] 2: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: {dream}, {dreaming}] 3: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" [syn: {ambition}, {aspiration}, {dream}] 4: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" [syn: {pipe dream}, {dream}] 5: a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream" 6: someone or something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream" v 1: have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy [syn: {dream}, {daydream}, {woolgather}, {stargaze}] 2: experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene"