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Webster 1913 Edition

Dream

Dream

(drēm)
,
Noun.
[Akin to OS.
drōm
, D.
droom
, G.
traum
, Icel.
draumr
, Dan. & Sw.
dröm
; cf. G.
trügen
to deceive, Skr.
druh
to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS.
dreám
joy, gladness, and OS.
drōm
joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr.
θρῦλοσ
noise.]
1.
The thoughts, or series of thoughts, 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.
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.
There sober thought pursued the amusing theme,
Till Fancy colored it and formed a
dream
.
Pope.
It is not them a mere
dream
, but a very real aim which they propose.
J. C. Shairp.

Dream

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dreamed
(drēmd)
or
Dreamt
(drĕmt);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dreaming
.]
[Cf. AS.
drēman
,
drȳman
, to rejoice. See
Dream
,
Noun.
]
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
.
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.
Here may we sit and
dream

Over the heavenly theme
Keble.
.
They
dream
on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting
Locke.
.

Dream

,
Verb.
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.
Your old men shall
dream
dreams
Acts ii. 17.
.
At length in sleep their bodies they compose,
And
dreamt
the future fight
Dryden.
.
And still they
dream
that they shall still succeed
Cowper.
.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dream

DREAM

,
Noun.
[G.]
1.
The thought or series of thoughts of a person in sleep. We apply dream, in the singular, to a series of thoughts, which occupy the mind of a sleeping person, in which he imagines he has a view of real things or transactions. A dream is a series of thoughts not under the command of reason, and hence wild and irregular.
2.
In scripture, dreams were sometimes impressions on the minds of sleeping persons, made by divine agency. God came to Abimelech in a dream. Joseph was warned by God in a dream. Genesis 20. Matthew 2.
3.
A vain fancy; a wild conceit; an unfounded suspicion.

DREAM

,
Verb.
I.
pret. dreamed or dreamt. [G.]
1.
To have ideas or images in the mind, in the state of sleep; with of before a noun; as, to dream of a battle; to dream of an absent friend.
2.
To think; to imagine; as, he little dreamed of his approaching fate.
3.
To think idly.
They dream on in a course of reading, without digesting.
4.
To be sluggish; to waste time in vain thoughts; as, to dream away life.

DREAM

,
Verb.
T.
To see in a dream.
And dreamt the future fight.
It is followed by a noun of the like signification; as, to dream a dream.

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