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Webster 1913 Edition

Whimsy

{

Whim′sey

,

Whimsy

}

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Whimseys

(#)

or

Whimsies

(#)

.

[See

.]

1.

A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.

“The whimsies of poets and painters.”

Ray.

Men’s folly,

whimsies

, and inconstancy.

Swift.

Mistaking the

whimseys

of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth.

Bancroft.

2.

(Mining)

A whim.

Whim′sy

,

Noun.

A whimsey.